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MySpace
Beverly Hills, California, key_people [[Tom Anderson (MySpace)|Tom Anderson, PresidentOwen Van Natta, CEO Mike Jones, COO Jason Hirschhorn, CPO
|num_employees 1000 http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/16/technology/myspace_layoffs/index.htm
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|launch_date August 2003
|current_status Active
|language advertising [[Google, website_type [[Social network service
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MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, US, - Article on the move to Beverly Hills. Retrieved March 16, 2007. where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, which is owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+myspace.com+TWITTER.com/?metricuv MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009; the company does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006,"MySpace100Millionth Profile"> in the Netherlands."Murdochcomments">
History
After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website, in August 2003. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch."business of spam"> A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site, right out of the gate, so the MySpace team wasn’t distracted with typical start-up issues. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverses Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpaces starting CEO), Josh read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace