When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing — and each user kept adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages — the advertising dollars would roll in. (more…)

Facebook has finally broken even with it’s nearest rival, social-networking website MySpace according to new statistics delivered overnight.

The privately owned social-media platform attracted a whopping 115 Million unique users during April, breaking even with it’s rival MySpace.

MySpace, owned by News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, has seen a steady decline in it’s use base since the inception of Facebook.

Comscore figures show Facebook’s popularity has soared in the past year, while MySpace has barely grown at all. (more…)

When News Corp. added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 20 million users kept growing - and kept each interested by adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages - the advertising dollars would roll in.

The social networking site has indeed grown - to 118 million registered users - and the flirty messages have not stopped. But the cash is not coming quite as quickly as the company had hoped. (more…)

MySpace will offer very soon to its users a free concert with the new icon of the French electro-pop: YELLE. But the principle of the Secret Show, the date and venue of this exceptional event are still kept secret! To be sure not to miss this unique concert, users will need to monitor carefully the clues that will be unveiled on the page MySpace Secret Show: http://fr.myspace.com/secretshowsfr (more…)

We start this week’s round-up of IP news with an update on the proposed copyright term extension for sound recordings. As we reported back in February, EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is backing an extension to the term from 50 to 95 years, a move that would bring Europe in line with the United States. Under McCreevy’s latest proposals in relation to the extension, session musicians would be entitled to a percentage of a song’s revenues rather than merely a flat fee as now. (more…)

A Warminster musician who bought drugs for then sexually assaulted a 15-yearold girl he met on MySpace was sentenced in Bucks County court Monday to two to six years in a state prison. Christopher Leasher, 24, who went by the name “Christopher Jive” on the popular social networking Web site, also will be a registered sex offender under Megan’s Law for 10 years. (more…)

There were a lot of things the training sergeant wanted to tell the rookies assigned to his precinct last year: how to interact with the public; how to secure a crime scene; how to ease tensions in a domestic dispute. Before he did any of that, though, the sergeant recalled recently, he had delivered a sharp message to his young charges: “If you have a Facebook page or a MySpace account and you’ve got pictures on there posing with your gun or your girlfriend is wearing your uniform, get rid of them before I find them.” (more…)

Australian mothers are turning to the internet to seek advice and stay in touch with the outside world, a survey has found.

The recent poll, conducted by the online social networking website MySpace, found mothers were using the internet to not only seek parenting advice, but also to pursue business interests, keep in contact with friends or simply as a time-out space in which to reconnect with the adult world. (more…)