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New Myspace sees big losses -- just like old Myspace

The new Myspace has had a tough first year and is again looking for funding.

According to Business Insider, a little more than year after Interactive Media Holdings -- which is mostly owned by the Vanderhook family -- took control of Myspace, the company has lost more than $40 million on $14 million in revenue this year.

Myspace expects to lose another $25 million in funding next year, according to the documents. Meanwhile, the company is out looking to raise $50 million in investment, says Business Insider.

Too much shouldn't be made about the losses, as the new Myspace … Read more

The new Myspace: SexyBack, or Dead and Gone?

You have to hand it to Myspace: every time you think it's Dead and Gone, it comes back with a new engine and a new coat of a paint.

After months of work and a change of owners headlined by Justin Timberlake, the beaten and battered social network is ready to spread its wings and show itself off to the world.

The result? An absolutely gorgeous website that tries to solve problems that Pandora, Spotify, and Vevo have already conquered.

I decided to crash Myspace's press event on Thursday (sorry Ketchum PR, I was in the area!). Luckily, … Read more

New Myspace to be segregated from old Myspace

When the revamped Myspace launches over the coming months, new users of the once-high-flying social network will be kept separate from veteran users of "classic Myspace."

That was the word from CEO Tim Vanderhook during an interview published today on ABCnews.com about plans for what is being called "new Myspace."

"There will be a separate section for our consumer base using the classic Myspace," Vanderhook told ABC. "We are going to leave it up for quite awhile. We will make a decision at a later date if we will ever take down … Read more

Myspace gets a new face

Tuesday's CNET Update is bringing sexy back to Myspace:

Myspace is getting an extreme makeover. The former king of social media has a video teaser of what the site's relaunch will look like. It's focused around displaying your photos, videos and music in a horizontal-scrolling profile. It looks like a mash-up between Pinterest and Microsoft's Windows 8 interface.

Music is still a major part of Myspace. There's an area to create playlist mixes, and those mixes can also have photos. (You could post a party playlist along with the party photos, for example.) There's … Read more

Myspace settles with FTC over ad privacy flap

Myspace and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a settlement over charges that the social network let advertisers access user information without first asking for permission.

As part of the settlement, Myspace will implement a new privacy program that requires "independent privacy assessments" and runs for the next 20 years.

The original issue stemmed from a behavior that gave advertisers access to Myspace users' Friend IDs, unique identifiers that linked to user accounts on the service. The FTC alleged that Myspace was breaking its own privacy policy by not alerting users about the behavior, or asking for their … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1583: Let Whurley, the evil genius, blow your mind (Podcast)

On today's show, we talk to the guys from Chaotic Moon Studios, the ones building Kinect-controlled skateboards and shopping carts and more. They're moving into mind-controlled devices. No, really. Also, the problem with Google's new privacy policies: Web search! The iPad 3 rumor roundup, how to make the most of Google+, and Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion.

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MySpace touts 1 million new users in last month

Are things looking up for MySpace? First Justin Timberlake invests, and then it announces a MySpace TV partnership with Panasonic. Now it's claiming 1 million new users in the last 30 days, which adds up to 40,000 new sign-ups daily.

The former social network giant come music streaming site announced yesterday that because of the launch of the MySpace Music Player, people are signing up at break-neck speed.

"The numbers tell an amazing story of strong momentum and dramatic change for MySpace," MySpace CEO Tim Vanderhook said in a statement, "and the 1 million-plus new … Read more

Reporters' Roundtable: Portable computing

And they said the laptop was dead.

This week, Apple refreshed its MacBook Air line, and in the process killed off its low-end MacBook (the white, plastic one). It's making the cake-slicer form-factor Air its new low-end portable computing product. What does this mean for computing overall? Where does the Chromebook fit in? Can Microsoft ever make a sexy laptop again, and will Intel's Ultrabook direction help?

Join CNET Reviews editors Donald Bell and Dan Ackerman as we discuss.

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Reporters' Roundtable: What Spotify means to the music industry

Big news in music this week: Spotify launched! It's been called iTunes with all the songs already bought. What's the big deal? What other startups or services are changing the music industry? And how is the industry changing for musicians? That's what we're talking about today with two influential experts in the field.

First, J Sider, the CEO of Root Music, the company behind BandPages, the music app for bands on Facebok.

Second, via Skype, Eliot Van Buskirk, editor of Evolver.fm and analyst at the music services company Echonest.

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Reporters' Roundtable: New social network battle lines

It's been a big two weeks in social networking. Let's recap:

On June 28, Google launched Google+, the social network with circles and group video chat.

On July 1, News Corp. sold Myspace to Specific Media and Justin Timberlake.

Also on July 1, Zynga filed to go public.

On July 6, Facebook added Skype-powered video calling and group text chat.

Twitter hasn't been in the news in as big a way, but on July 5, Twitter bought the social analysis company BackType, which is relevant to this discussion

Has the social network landscape changed? Is Google+ that big a deal? What does it all mean?

Our guests today to discuss the redrawn battle lines in social networking are, here in the studio, Josh Constine, lead writer of Inside Facebook. And via Skype, Erica Naone, the social-media editor at MIT Tech Review.

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