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TECH CRUNCH - July 6 - The number of visitors to MySpace UK has halved in the last six months, leading to a fresh round of layoffs at the London office. Monthly visits to MySpace UK are down from a peak of just under 10M at the start of the year

THE AGE - May 27 - Though there have always been concerns about Facebook's position on privacy, the current wave of anger began about a month ago when the company revealed plans to make users' private information available to advertisers through a new app, Connections. More than 15,000 people worldwide have vowed to

MASHABLE - Apr 20 - As of March 2010 ComScore data, Facebook traffic made up 41% of all traffic on a list of popular social destinations. MySpace was in second place, capturing ~24% of traffic. Gmail had 15%, and Twitter had 8%. However, during the same period in

TECH CRUNCH - Apr 5 - MySpace is preparing to add Facebook Connect features to its main service. This will be the first time MySpace will publicly conceded defeat to Facebook over ownership of the social graph. Earlier this year the MySpace UK team added Facebook Connect features to

GUARDIAN.CO.UK - Mar 26 - Young UK internet users creating social network profiles despite official age limit, annual Ofcom survey finds. A quarter of UK internet users aged 8 - 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, although the lowest minimum age set on any of

PC WORLD - Mar 17 - Information from MySpace is now for sale to third parties ranging from academics and analysts to marketers. The data will include any activity or information that is attached to an account. That includes blog posts, location, photos, reviews, and status updates-among others. InfoChimps, an Austin Texas company

TECH CRUNCH - Mar 11 - Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained ~2M users. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third

TECH CRUNCH - Mar 8 - Flash game advertising network and payments platform Mochi Media is launching a social gaming platform and a $10M fund to invest in game developers. Mochi Social allow developers to build social features into their games such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to an activity stream. The

CBS NEWS - Mar 2 - Sex offenders in California will have one more roadblock in their efforts to lure young victims if lawmakers in Sacramento have anything to do with it. Norma Torres introduced the bill in January, which would make it a crime for California's 63,000 registered sex offenders to

MASHABLE - Feb 27 - myYearbook remains one of the most popular social network, with 20M members and a place in the top 30 most trafficked websites in the U.S. According to CEO Geoff Cook, the company ended 2009 with an annual revenue run rate of $20M, up 70% from 2008. Most of that

EWEEK - Feb 17 - Microsoft announced partnerships with Facebook and MySpace that would see social-networking information from those services ported into Outlook, as well as the release of LinkedIn for Outlook beta. LinkedIn for Outlook will enable users to view their contacts’

TECH CRUNCH - Dec 30 - Charlie Rose welcomed Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on his show last night for a 15 minute interview. Pincus says 60-70M people a day are playing social games on Facebook and MySpace, and 1%-2% are willing to shell out actual cash to enhance gameplay. Zynga is behind some

MASHABLE - Dec 15 - Fresh off the acquisitions of music services iLike and iMeem, MySpace is now reportedly eyeing Flixster, a popular movie rating site that also has its apps on social networking sites and mobile platforms. The reason for the interest is to combine it with Rotten Tomatoes, another News

READ WRITE WEB - Dec 4 - MySpace has launched a new version of their mobile website designed for iPhone, Android and Palm WebOS users. The now-improved site at m.myspace.com offers quick access to users' profile, including comments, their activity stream, status, inbox and more. Although the mobile site at m.myspace.com is available from

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 18 - MySpace will acquire most of the assets of iMeem for ~$1M in cash. $1M isn’t the “real” purchase price for the company. Some assets are being left behind, including millions of dollars in accounts receivable plus some other cash. All or most of these