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MySpace pages ruled admissable
San Angelo Standard Times
By Michael Graczyk AP HOUSTON ? The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday an accused killer's MySpace pages were properly used as evidence by prosecutors to help convince a jury to convict the Dallas-area street gang member of murder.
Top Texas Criminal Court OKs Use of Defendant's MySpace Pages to Convict Him ...ABA Journal
MySpace Used Properly in Murder Conviction: CourtNBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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Teen Killer Who Bragged About 'Killing People' on MySpace Sentenced to Life
Gawker
Alyssa Bustamante?the 18-year-old Missouri girl who, at 15, confessed to murdering a 9-year-old neighbor and bragged about "killing people" on MySpace?has been sentenced to life in prison. After pleading guilty to second-degree murder and armed ...

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Cops: Christian metal singer used Facebook, Myspace, to prey on underage girls
CBS News
(CBS) MIAMI COUNTY, Ohio - The lead singer of a Christian metal band is accused of having sex with an underage girl, and he's believed to have used Facebook and Myspace to contact other possible victims. CBS Cleveland reports 24-year-old Derek ...



GigaOm

Online music is hard: iLike shuts down
GigaOm
7, 2012, 4:19pm PT 3 Comments Myspace officially pulled the plug on the social music service iLike.com today, putting an end to what once was hailed as the most popular social music service (hat tip to hypebot). iLike was one of the first startups to ...
From 60M users to zero: iLike co-founder laments its demise and Murdoch's ...GeekWire
iLike, Early Digital Music Trailblazer, Officially DeadBillboard.biz
iLike closes, redirects to Myspacemusicweek.com
SlashGear
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VentureBeat

Does former MySpace CEO think Facebook's stock value will last?
VentureBeat
Jones was MySpace's most recent CEO; his job was to assess a faltering social app and see if it was saveable. Since Jones saw a once-powerful network through a period of layoffs, restructuring, and an eventual sale to an ad network, we wondered how he ...
Is Facebook becoming Myspace?Rocky Mountain Collegian
Facebook IPO: What Could Go Wrong?Wall Street Journal (blog)
Is Facebook's IPO an exit strategy?ZDNet (blog)
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Court: MySpace used properly in murder conviction
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday an accused killer's MySpace pages were properly used as evidence by prosecutors to help convince a jury to convict the Dallas-area street gang member of murder

Court: MySpace Evidence OK in Trial
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday an accused killer's MySpace pages were properly used as evidence by prosecutors to help convince a jury to convict the Dallas-area street gang member of murder.

Court upholds MySpace evidence used to convict gang member in 2007 Dallas freeway shootout
David Valadez died of wounds suffered when gunfire erupted from at least two of three vehicles as a confrontation that began earlier at a club played out on Interstate 30.

Court upholds MySpace evidence used to convict gang member of murder in 2007 Dallas freeway shootout
David Valadez died of wounds suffered when gunfire erupted from at least two of three vehicles as a confrontation that began earlier at a club played out on Interstate 30.

Court Rules MySpace Used Properly In Dallas Conviction
A court ruled that an accused killer's MySpace page was properly used as evidence by prosecutors to convict the Dallas-area street gang member of murder.

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace cry foul on Google+ search
Engineers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have created an open-source plug-in that they hope proves their worst fears about Google?s decision to fold its social results into search ? that Google is moving away from its mission to be a neutral directory of the Internet. Read full article >>

New Payday Loans Myspace Strategy Announced By USAPaydayForever.com
USAPaydayForever.com Has Announced A New Myspace Strategy For Their Online Payday Loans Services. This Is Part Of Their Social Media Campaign(PRWEB) January 26, 2012 Recently, USAPaydayForever.com has announced that they are continuously extending their payday loans promotional campaign with social media strategies. The most recent of these strategies to be reported is their Myspace social media ...

Why MySpace Flopped and Facebook Won't
Andrew Weinreich, founder of sixdegrees.com, says Facebook's expected IPO will succeed due to Mark Zuckerberg's long-term vision.

LA?s tech scene gets a shot in the arm from Science, the newest incubator
The hustling Los Angeles tech scene is revolving around a new center these days: an incubator called Science. It started just a couple months ago and is the work of former MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Color co-founder Peter Pham.

FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace
The FBI is looking to monitor all public information posted on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. The organization is asking for an app to do all the scraping automatically.