Facebook’s coming video ads run the risk of ‘MySpacing’ the world’s most popular social network

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.

Survey: Facebook is the most stress-inducing social media site (and, paradoxically, the most positive)

Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it's also the network with the most positive effect on our moods.

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

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

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.

ComScore top 50 sites July 2012: Instagram rocks, Tumblr passes MySpace, Sun Microsystems rises from the dead

ComScore released its July 2012 Top 50 web properties in the U.S. report yesterday, and it has a few surprises.

Facebook, please don’t become MySpace (and put too many ads on each page)

Remember when Facebook only showed three ads on each page? And when the company moved to four in 2010? More recently, the company has been at six, and I’m currently seeing seven, but Facebook is now testing up to 10 …

Justin Timberlake takes a stake in Myspace

Myspace’s new owner, Specific Media, said Wednesday that Emmy- and Grammy-Award winning artist Justin Timberlake will take an undisclosed stake in the newly acquired company.

Timberlake will play a major role in developing the strategy and creative direction of Myspace, …

Specific Media acquires Myspace for $35 million

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 …

News Corp. finalizing $30M sale of Myspace

Myspace’s parent company News Corp. is in the final stages of selling the under-performing social network for $20 – $30 million, reports All Things Digital.

News Corp. is apparently in a rush to complete an acquisition deal by Thursday — …

Myspace laying off 150 employees ahead of company’s sale?

The once great social networking site Myspace is expected to make big cuts to its employee ranks Wednesday, reports Gawker.

TechCrunch later confirmed with sources inside Myspace that the company is laying off at least 150 (37.5 percent) of its …