MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan
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Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos &#151; not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures &#151; and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.
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The online hangout MySpace appears to be less popular among teens as rival Facebook draws more of the high school crowd, according to new measurements from comScore Media Metrix.
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Having drawn millions of people into its Internet community, MySpace now wants them to come together to help produce a movie to be shot in Britain.   MySpace will host the competition, kicking off Wednesday in London, to find a director for the film, Variety said Monday.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA  TOKYO - Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos - not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com.
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Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)--Social networking service, a members-only online community, has rapidly been gaining popularity in Japan, fueling competition among major Internet service providers.
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The online community MySpace is introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs that better integrate with the Internet's leading social-networking site.
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace.com is  in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with  Boston technology trade publisher International Data Group's  Chinese venture arm and former China Netcom Group Corp.  (0906.HK) Chief Executive Edward Tian, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Japan plans to start research on new networking technology that could one day replace the Internet amid its growing quality and security problems, according to the nation's communications ministry.
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The social networking site that's more networking than social wants to go public.
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A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
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Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have been boons for teenagers looking for new friends and people trying to find dates. Now the technology, which lets liked-minded people find each other online, is trickling into investing.
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The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials
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MySpace China gives users the power of instant messaging.
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MySpace is moving into a new arena -- casual gaming. The social-networking giant announced a deal with New York-based Oberon Media on Tuesday to create a new, free gaming destination.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 10--Google. MySpace. Facebook. YouTube. They're not just insanely popular phenomena: They also are businesses that require superpowerful computers distributing mountains of data in microseconds to eager users.
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By Perrin, Bill; Naya, Hiroshi; Huang, Wendy; Fuchs, Robert  VOX POP  Yahoo dominates the search engine market in Japan. The entry of China's Baidu and Korea's NHN there raises the question of whether or not they can succeed.
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TOKYO -- Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it.