Tag archive: Justin Timberlake

MySpace's fall from grace can be measured by two sets of figures: Dropping from 75 million unique visitors a month to fewer than 25 million, and being sold once for more than $500 million and then again for “just” $35 million, all in the space of a few years. New owners Tim and Chris Vanderhook, who took over in June last year, told the New York Times they weren't seeing any new signups at all, a statistic that was… Read More

Just when you thought MySpace had finally resigned to the same history books populated with sites like Friendster and Pets.com, the ailing social network is showing new signs of life. After taking part ownership in MySpace all the way back in June, entertainment mogul Justin Timberlake revealed his plan to reinvent MySpace as a social media network for watching TV with friends at Panasonic’s CES press conference. The pitch: With the… Read More

During a conference call today concerning the News Corp. fiscal fourth quarter earnings report, it was reported that the news giant lost $254 million on the sale of MySpace to Specific Media on June 29. This loss pushed net income for the company down by 22 percent. Murdoch purchased MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, but watched the investment rapidly lose value as MySpace members defected to Facebook in massive numbers. Management at MySpace… Read More

Love him or hate him, Justin Timberlake seems destined to become a major league Hollywood player, and an A-list actor. Following the path balzed by others like Will Smith, the one-time boy-bander has put in his dues, and appeared in several films where he stood out. With each new positive review, Timberlake has moved ever upward on the Hollywood scene towards his own big budget starring vehicle. Following his success in The Social Network, it… Read More

These days the “other” social network everyone is talking about is, of course, Google+. While we were all busy chattering on about Circles and Hangouts, however, professional-tinged network LinkedIn quietly became the second-most popular social network in the United States, after Facebook. That pushes poor MySpace back to No. 3, in the US — but not worldwide. According to a report from CNN, LinkedIn's America-based web traffic… Read More

It was recently announced that Justin Timberlake, who played Napster co-founder and former Facebook President Sean Parker in The Social Network, has purchased an ownership in MySpace and now has an office at the flailing company’s headquarters. While Timberlake’s music industry prestige and apparent interest in social networking will obviously lend some hype to the site, that’s usually not enough to halt a downward spiral of MySpace’s… Read More

It's not often that you hear of someone switching from Facebook to Myspace. But in a surprising instance of life imitating art (that imitates life), Justin Timberlake did just that: The actor and singer has reportedly purchased an ownership stake in MySpace, along with fellow buyer Specific Media. The former N'SNYC member, who played Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker in The Social Network, will help revamp the… Read More

To put it bluntly, to make it as succinct as possible, The Social Network is one of the best movies I have seen all year. It is far too early to say it is the best, and I would have to go through every movie released this year before I could even consider labeling it as such, but it is definitely up there, and will likely be in the discussion when people begin to talk “best of” and awards begin to circulate. David Fincher manages to pull off… Read More

The new rules would be used to aid investigations of indecency complaints, as they would require broadcasters to keep recordings of their content from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. All this is occurring at the same time that federal law states that radio stations and television stations cannot make references to sexual and excretory functions. The FCC has stepped up enforcement of indecency standards after this year's controversial Super Bowl… Read More

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday's Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurementof second-by-second viewership in TiVo households. The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used… Read More

Premium members have downloaded or streamed over 2 million tracks during the first week of the new service, and the Company estimates that it will have in excess of 80,000 Premium subscribers by theend of the year. Demonstrating the broad appeal of the “all access” nature of its Premium service, Napster and Penn State University today announced that Penn State will purchase access to Napster's Premium service for its… Read More