Kara Swisher in Media on November 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
Another day, another pile of funding for a social marketing start-up.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 13, 2011 at 11:28 am PT
When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be.
That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities
after leaving Myspace.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 11, 2011 at 2:07 pm PT
Maybe cable subscribers aren’t dumping their service in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc. But maybe they’re cutting back on HBO and Showtime. A new study says Web TV watchers are behind an eight percent drop in premium cable subs.
Kara Swisher in News on November 22, 2010 at 7:00 am PT
Yardsellr is announcing today that it has closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Accel Partners.
Harrison Metal, which is run by investor Michael Dearing and gave the social listings and transactions site seed financing last year, also participated in the round.
Yardsellr says it uses “social plumbing to power all interactions between buyers and sellers, although users create listings and consummate transactions.”
Welcome to eBay, Facebook-style!
Peter Kafka in Media on June 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm PT
Jason Hirschhorn joined MySpace a little more than a year ago as chief product officer. In February, he was put in charge of the ailing social network, along with Mike Jones. Now he’s out.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 7, 2010 at 10:39 am PT
It’s not a huge shock to see former start-up CEOs join big companies after the demise of their own. But this move is a bit more surprising: It means that Veoh founder and former CEO Dmitry Shapiro will be working for one of the companies that helped put him out of work.
Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
Yesterday afternoon, BoomTown got on the phone for a little chitchat with MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn about the company’s latest hire, as well as an update on major changes the social networking site is undergoing in its bid to revive itself.
Plus, since I have written a lot about the departures of execs there, such as the Partovi brothers, fair is fair to discuss the arrivals!
Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2010 at 5:22 pm PT
Well-known tech entrepreneurs and twin brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi are leaving MySpace, in a high-profile departure for the struggling social networking company.
Internal memos were sent around to staff this afternoon about the departure, said sources, which you can see after the jump.
The fate of the well-known tech wunderkinds has been one of the more interesting guessing games of late at MySpace.
MySpace execs have been keenly interested in avoiding the appearance that the company is in the grip of a talent drain, especially related to such high-profile innovators.
