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MySpace.com is the leading lifestyle portal for networking online. Integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music downloads, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, chatrooms, and user forums, MySpace.com has created a connected community where users put their lives online.
Chief Executive Officer
Owen Van NattaNumber of Employees 200
Contact Information
1223 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 402
Santa Monica, California 90401
(310) 917-4949
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other Publishers: 511199
Recent Events
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MySpace Introduces New APIs, Launches Developer Challenge
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MySpace Music Acquires Shuttered Imeem Music Service
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Done Deal: MySpace Music Acquires Imeem
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Suit Says Facebook Scammed Gamers Out of Information, Cash
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Google Partners With MySpace, Lala, Others for Music Search
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Facebook, MySpace May Share Content
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Facebook and MySpace 'in talks?' Of course
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Giving Away Privacy By Sharing Online?
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MySpace Uses Fusion-Powered I/O to Drive Greener Datacenters
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MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives
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Oops! Hack lets anybody join the MySpace network on Facebook
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 9
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MySpace Music Goes Down Under
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Justice Dept. on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter
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Facebook Turns Off Beacon
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Employers Using Social Networking Sites To Research Job Candidates
News & Analysis
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iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale
PaidContent
- 2009-11-18
As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup iMeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move possibly engineering and sales, whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible...
Playdom's Big Round Fuels First Two Acquisitions: iPhone, Facebook Game Developers
PaidContent
- 2009-11-12
Fresh off a $43 million first round of funding, comes news that social gamer Playdom has made its first two acquisitions: Facebook game developer Green Patch and iPhone game developer Trippert Labs. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded by David King, Green Patch launched in 2008. Its first game...
Mobile Startup Rumored To Be Buying News Corp.'s Photobucket
PaidContent
- 2009-10-19
Seattle-based Ontela, which builds software that helps users upload their photos from the phone to their favorite photo-sharing sites, may be close to acquiring Photobucket, which is owned by News Corp.‘s MySpace. TechCrunch reports that a source with knowledge of the deal says that MySpace is in the process...
Adobe teams up with Gigya to distribute Flash apps
Strategy Eye
- 2009-09-21
Adobe Systems is teaming up with social widget maker Gigya to develop a service that enables advertisers and developers to distribute Flash-based applications across social networks and mobile platforms. The service provides developers with the ability to add a "share" button to their app, which automatically installs it on...
MySpace's Biz Dev Lead Leaves; Joins Mobile Gaming Company Ngmoco
PaidContent
- 2009-09-16
Jason Oberfest, the SVP of business development at MySpace, has left the social network, and is joining ngmoco, the developer and publisher for iPhone games, as its VP of social applications, to lead its “expansion into the social web,” as the company puts it. He will be helping the...
Microsoft reveals app store partners
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-30
Microsoft has signed up a number of developers for its forthcoming mobile application store, including Facebook, MySpace, games maker Electronic Arts and music service Pandora. The software giant says it will discuss the partnerships and demo mobile apps at the CTIA wireless showcase in Las Vegas this...
MySpace, bank of America and others get behind Symbian
Strategy Eye
- 2009-02-13
Another 14 companies, including Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, MySpace and Qualcomm, have lent their support to plans to turn Symbian into an open-source, mobile operating system. The system now has more support than Google’s mobile software competitor Android. The Symbian...
MySpace Launches Streaming Mobile Video; Beta Includes User-Gen, Branded Content
Content Next
- 2008-12-03
MySpace Mobile is adding a new dimension tonight—streaming video, both user-generated and branded, to the phone. Caveats: it's in beta, and requires logging into a MySpace profile, but will work with the "most popular streaming-enabled mobile devices," like the BlackBerry Bold, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Centro, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Q9,...
MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe: Mobile Advertising Still "Undeveloped"
Content Next
- 2008-12-02
There's no doubt that people want to access social networking sites from their phones. Just yesterday, when both Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) released their top searches for mobile, social nets dominated the lists. But while popularity is all well and good and of course, necessary, it...
MySpace and Facebook Fast Becoming the Leading Mobile Social Networks, Says ABI Research
- 2008-10-06
NEW YORK -- According to a recent online survey* conducted by ABI Research, nearly half (46%) of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Owen Van Natta | Chief Executive Officer |
| Courtney Holt | President, MySpace Music |
| Jason Hirschhorn | Chief Product Officer |
| Michael Jones | Chief Operating Officer |
| Valeh Vakili | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations |
| Chris DeWolfe | Strategic Advisor |
| Connie Madden | |
| Geoffrey Y. Yang | Investor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Amit Kapur | Board of Directors |
| Jim Benedetto | Board of Directors |
| Steve Pearman | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Revenue Officer & Vice President, Operations | Former |
| PlanetAll | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Zip2 | Director, Sales | Former |
| Ziff Davis Holdings, Inc. | Sales Executive | Former |
| University of California Santa Cruz | B.A., English & American Literature | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | President, MySpace Music | Current |
| MTV Networks Company | Executive Vice President, Digital Music | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Product Officer | Current |
| Computers for Youth | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tech Corps Georgia, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sling Media | President | Former |
| MTV Networks Company | Chief Digital Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| AOL LLC | Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations | Current |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Director, U.S. Sales Operations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Strategic Advisor | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Intermix Media, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| MySpace.com | co-founder | Former |
| University of Southern California | MBA | Former |
| University of Washington | B.A. degree in Finance | Former |
Connie Madden is a freelance writer and publicist living in Petaluma, CA. As Secretary of Petaluma Tomorrow, she is steeped in local politics and community-building; as a blogger on ArgusCourier.com, Blogspot.com and MySpace.com and more, she looks at the world through many lenses. Connie Madden Communications is her company moniker, allowing her to take on a wide variety of projects from health care to work for peace, playwriting to support for a documentary on China. Connie sometimes served as a public relations account executive for major corporations in San Francisco and often works with one-person businesses including her partner's store, Jungle Vibes, in Petaluma. She is currently working with Ping Zhao & Associates to create a documentary on China and with Georgia Kelly of Praxis Peace, Sonoma, to create a conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She has worked with Dianne Feinstein on a video for the Food & Beverage Industry of San Francisco, handled publicity for United Nations 50th Anniversary events and published articles in the Argus Courier, Pacific Sun and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology among many others. You can google Connie Madden Communications or conniemadden@yahoo.com conniemadden@yahoo.com or call her at 707-781-9311.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Current | |
| Petaluma Tomorrow | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Product Strategy | Former |
Geoffrey Y. Yang has served as a director of TiVo since October 1997. Since August 1999, Mr. Yang has been a Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Yang has been a general partner of Institutional Venture Partners, a venture capital firm since 1989. Mr. Yang is a director of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a provider of Web-wide search, and numerous private companies. Mr. Yang holds a B.S.E. degree in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Redpoint Ventures | Managing Director | Current |
| Azul Systems Inc | Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Managing Director | Current |
| Red Point | Founder | Current |
| Institutional Venture Partners | General Partner | Current |
| BigBand Networks, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Azul Systems Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Investor | Current |
| MMC Networks | Investor | Current |
| Calix | Investor | Current |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | Investor | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | President | Former |
| Red Point | Founding Partner | Former |
| Redpoint Ventures | Partner | Former |
| Institutional Venture Partners | Venture Capitalist | Former |
| First Century Partners | Associate | Former |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | Director | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | M.B.A. | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. Degree | Former |
| Princeton University | B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems | Former |
Executive News
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MySpace mail slated to launch this week
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MySpace Farms Out Overseas Ad Operations
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News Corp won't buy Twitter
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Murdoch Balks at Twitter Buy, MySpace Sale
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Murdoch Not Interested in Twitter and Won't Sell MySpace
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News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
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UPDATE 2-News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
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Startups Smell Userplane Blood
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Redefining MySpace
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ANALYSIS-MySpace begins redefining its space
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UPDATE 2-MySpace to cut two-thirds of global workforce
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