MySpace names Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer

MySpace names Rosenbaum as its first finance chief

NEW YORK — The social networking hub MySpace says it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer.

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Muhozi has added you as a friend: Ugandan gorillas join Facebook as part of online fundraiser

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

KAMPALA, Uganda — He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook.

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Endangered Ugandan gorillas seek friends on Facebook, Myspace

Ugandan gorillas get friendly on Facebook

KAMPALA, Uganda — He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook.

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ComScore, Omniture join up to measure digital audiences

ComScore, Omniture join up to measure audiences

NEW YORK — Two of the largest companies involved in tracking and analyzing Web traffic are joining forces to measure digital audiences more comprehensively.

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Fiancee of Yale tech questioned in killing writes: ‘Who are you to judge the life I live?’

Yale tech's fiancee writes on MySpace: Don't judge

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The fiancee of a Yale University animal research technician says on her MySpace page that she's not perfect, but cautioned people not to judge her.

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Lawmakers consider clampdown on the way Internet marketers collect personal data to target ads

Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy

WASHINGTON — The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages — all of this can give companies insight into what Internet ads we might be interested in seeing.

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Currys staff brands customers retards and t**ts via Facebook!

LONDON - Employees at PC World and Currys used Facebook to abuse their customers.

Many past and present staff members hurled abuses to their customers on discussion boards.

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California man accused of kidnapping 15-year-old Idaho girl he met on social networking site

CA man charged with kidnapping teen he met online

BOISE, Idaho — An 18-year-old California man has been charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old Idaho girl after police say the two met on a social networking site and he got her to move in with him.

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AP group’s survey finds newspapers are sweeping out many younger workers in staff cutbacks

APME survey: Newspaper cuts clip younger workers

SAN FRANCISCO — Cost-cutting newspapers are losing many of their youngest reporters, editors and photographers at the same time publishers are trying to break some of their old habits and learn new tricks on the Internet.

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MySpace buys social music app iLike for $20 million after series of painful cuts

MySpace scoops up popular Facebook app iLike

LOS ANGELES — Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns.

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