News Corp May Deal MySpace to Yahoo
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News Corp. may be ready to sell off MySpace in an effort to gain a stake in search engine company Yahoo, British daily The Times reported Wednesday.
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Yahoo has apparently offered $900 million for social networking site Facebook, media reports indicate. The offer is still being considered and negotiations said to be ongoing.
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Spurred by the popularity of  MySpace, News Corp. sites have overtaken Yahoo Inc. sites as  the most viewed by U.S. Internet users, according to new  industry data cited by News Corp. on Tuesday.
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MySpace, the online social networking site owned by News Corp, is in talks with music companies to launch an advertising-supported free music service, according to several reports on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Social  networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the  past couple of years -- from News Corp.'s ground-breaking  acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt  Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.'s Logo network of Club Penguin and  DowneLink.com, respectively.
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Yahoo is in talks to buy social networking website Facebook for $1bn, reports claim.
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Social  networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the  past couple of years -- from News Corp.&#39;s ground-breaking  acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt  Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.&#39;s Logo network of Club Penguin and  DowneLink.com, respectively.
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News Corp.'s Web network MySpace has been in talks for several months with online auction company eBay Inc. about a partnership, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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News Corp&#39;s MySpace can tailor  advertisements to its members based on information on their  personal profile pages, after experimenting with technology  over the past six months, The New York Times said on Tuesday.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with Yahoo Inc to fend off Microsoft Corp's $42.1 billion bid, according to several reports.
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Social-networking Web site  Facebook.com is in serious talks to sell itself to Internet  media company Yahoo Inc. for an amount that could approach $1  billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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MySpace plans to announce as soon as Feb. 13 that it has formed a business incubator called SlingShot Labs to spawn Internet start-ups for News Corporation's growing empire of Web properties, which now includes The Wall Street Journal's WSJ.com as well as the video game site IGN, according to BusinessWeek. News Corp. chieftain Rupert Murdoch and [...].
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InfoWorld - Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend offÂ Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Inc.  and a loose  consortium of newspaper publishers are considering a  partnership that would include Web classifieds, local news, and  content packages based on general themes like travel,  BusinessWeek magazine reported on Thursday.
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News Corp.'s MySpace social networking site is using personal details contained on users' profile pages and blogs to sell highly targeted advertising, the company said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc is reportedly in talks with News Corp to combine their Web properties, but Wall Street analysts rained scorn on the likelihood of a deal that can fend off Microsoft Corp's $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo.
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LOS ANGELES -- Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s board will take the lead in deciding whether the Wall Street Journal publisher will be sold to News Corp. for $60 a share as MySpace.com founder Brad Greenspan offered the same price for 25 percent of the company.