MySpace may be worth $15 billion
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MySpace, the social networking  Web site, could be worth around $15 billion within three years,  measured in terms of the value created for shareholders of  parent company News Corp., a Wall Street media analyst forecast  on Wednesday.
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Reuters reports the announcement coming today:  Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones in an expansion of their partnership, the companies plan to announce on Monday.  For an additional $2.99 a month, customers will be able to upload photos taken on cell phones, read and [...]
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It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc.  -  the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc
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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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Think of it as a corporate MySpace for Moto Guzzis, or a Facebook for flatheads. (Harley flatheads, that is.)
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Software dinosaur Microsoft paid millions for a tiny piece of trendy internet property Facebook. But the company needs something to make it hot again
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The move could foster some of the chaotic creativity that is more closely associated with its competitor, MySpace.
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News Corp is reportedly considering selling MySpace to Yahoo for a 25% stake in the internet search firm.
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Also: MySpace founder aims to thwart Murdoch's WSJ bid.
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The founder of craigslist, the free   social networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he   is not interested in selling out, a few hours after social   networking site MySpace was valued at $15 billion.
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These days, numbers just seem to blur together. Microsoft is thinking about paying $500 million for 5 percent of Facebook, which would make that company worth $10 billion. VMware, in which parent company EMC recently sold a stake to the public, is currently valued at $30 billion (that's just for VMware, not the whole of EMC).
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Microsoft Corp  is talking to Facebook about an investment in the company that could value the fast-growing social network at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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MySpace.com will soon enable members of the popular online social networking hub to sell downloads of their original music directly through MySpace Web pages, company executives said Friday.
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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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Online social network Facebook is  close to reaching a deal with Google Inc  or Microsoft  Corp  for an investment that would value the company as  high as $15 billion, according to media 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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The Motley Fool - Last winter, I identified SNOCAP as one of four interesting privately held companies that investors might just wish were public companies. There wasn't too much news out of SNOCAP after that, to my surprise -- until now, and it's pretty big. As you have probably heard, it's hooked up with News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, enabling the popular social networking site to offer tools to musicians looking to sell directly to fans.