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News Corp. Takes A Bath On MySpace Sale
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 4:15pm | 242News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) finally unloaded its floundering MySpace web property today and the price is rather shocking - $35 million. The company paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, and was hoping to fetch around $100 million for the social networking site. The buyer is a company called Specific...
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The Only Thing MySpace is Useful for is Killing Spotify
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 3:32pm | 843Does MySpace have any value left in it? Remarkably, yes – it does. And that value goes beyond whatever price Specific Media paid to acquire the social networking entity. Everyday, when millions of people sign into Pandora and other online radio stations, I sign into MySpace. I don't use the site...