With beauty and brains, new MySpace seems too good to be true (review)

November 16, 2012 3:00 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Editor's Pick This is no redesign. It's a new product with a new purpose and a design meant to evoke emotion. And, if you have the patience to get used to a whole new experience, it's addictive.

Remaking MySpace: How Tim and Chris Vanderhook are turning around the web’s biggest joke

October 8, 2012 12:00 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Editor's Pick MySpace might be a joke to many. But it is no laughing matter for Tim and Chris Vanderhook, brothers not grim about the social network's chances at a full-fledged comeback.

Myspace reinvents itself as an “entertainment experience,” with help from Panasonic and Justin Timberlake

January 9, 2012 7:29 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Panasonic’s big bet in 2012 is a social network that has been steadily losing cachet since 2008: Myspace.

Panasonic trotted out Justin Timberlake at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today to try and bring sexy back to the …

Specific Media acquires Myspace for $35 million

June 29, 2011 12:54 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Myspace’s parent company News Corp. has sold the social networking site for $35 million to Specific Media, reports All Things Digital.

The deal will pay out a mix of cash and stock to Specific Media, an online advertising company, with …