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• Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint

  By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2012 02:19

  Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of users' personal information, the FTC announced Tuesday.

• Social networking websites may face government regulation

  By Hamish Barwick | 16 March, 2012 11:32

  Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are in the firing line from Cyber Safety Committee deputy chair, Alex Hawke, saying that Australian children younger than 13 use their websites despite the current 13+ age restriction.

• Social networking engineers team to make Google searches less 'evil'

  By Brad Reed | 24 January, 2012 08:22

  Software engineers from major social networking companies have apparently grown tired of Google's relentless drive to push its own Google+ social network at the expense of other sites.

• Buying Myspace was a huge mistake: Murdoch

  By AAP | 24 October, 2011 09:02

  News Corp's purchase of Myspace was a "huge mistake" and the social network was mismanaged "in every possible way" following the acquisition, chief executive Rupert Murdoch says.

• User satisfaction study: Facebook vulnerable to Google+

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 July, 2011 14:07

  User satisfaction with Facebook is low enough that the social networking site risks losing significant market share to Google+, according to a new study.

• LinkedIn passes MySpace in US net traffic

  By AAP | 12 July, 2011 08:42

  LinkedIn leapfrogged MySpace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore said.

• News Corp sells MySpace for $US35m

  By AAP | 30 June, 2011 12:09

  News Corp has sold struggling social networking site MySpace for $US35 million ($A33.33 million), mostly in stock, according to a person familiar with the matter.

• Social networking self-regulation isn't working says EU

  By Jennifer Baker | 21 June, 2011 22:19

  Only two social networking sites make minors' profiles private by default, according to a test of 14 such sites conducted for the European Commission.

• Grieving mother seeks tougher cyber safety

  By AAP | 04 February, 2011 09:46

  A woman whose daughter was murdered after being stalked by an internet predator has called on social networking sites to better protect users.

• NewsCorp flags offloading MySpace

  By AAP | 03 February, 2011 14:54

  News Corporation has confirmed it is considering offloading its struggling social networking website MySpace.

• Myspace redesigns site, launches new features

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 28 October, 2010 00:12

  Myspace has launched a new version of its site that includes a whole host of new entertainment-focused features in a bid to turn around dwindling visitor numbers, and at the same time make visitors stay longer.

• 10 reasons why revamped Myspace will fail

  By Brennon Slattery | 28 October, 2010 04:09

  Remember MySpace? Me neither.

• MySpace now talking to Facebook with Sync

  By Rodney Gedda | 31 August, 2010 12:45

  Social network interoperability went up a notch this week with MySpace releasing Sync, an application to post status updates and other content on users' Facebook pages.

• MySpace loses 49% of visitors in 12 months

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 23 July, 2010 23:26

  MySpace has only half as many visitors as it had last year, says ComScore.

• Google starts serving up MySpace status updates

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 February, 2010 07:55

  Google has started incorporating into its search results status updates that MySpace users have posted publicly.