QOTD: And the Buyer’s Remorse Lingers On

Look out Facebook! Hours spent participating per member dropping seriously. First really bad sign as seen by crappy MySpace years ago.

Rupert Murdoch, still steamed about that whole MySpace thing, tweets a warning to Facebook

Fetch! BarkBox Raises $5 Million for Doggy Treat Deliveries.

It’s like Birchbox, minus the makeup, plus the chew-toys.
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Myspace Hires Two VPs to Prep for Relaunch

Myspace, the struggling website that fueled the first major wave of the social Internet, announced Monday that it had hired two new vice presidents to prepare the company for its major relaunch this year. New VP of global marketing Christian Parkes comes most recently from Levi’s, and held a similar previous position at Nike. Joseph Patel will be Myspace’s VP of content and creative, and was most recently a senior producer at Vice Magazine.

Former Yahoo Boss Ross Levinsohn Has a New Gig, and a Digital M&A War Chest

Guggenheim Partners opens up a new digital fund, and gets a veteran digital dealmaker and operator to run the show.
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One Month On, Mark Cuban Is Doing Just Fine With Less Facebook in His Life

The billionaire gets candid on a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” page.
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Myspace Plans a Reboot — Again

Round …4?
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Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp.

His departure brings into focus the fate of News Corp.’s overall digital strategy in an upcoming new structure.
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Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo

The Hair bows out.
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Rafat Ali 2.0: Meet Skift, the Travel Industry’s Version of PaidContent

What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media start-up? Take two years off, and start building another media star-tup.
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