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Murdoch admits company "screwed up" after buying MySpace

article published on 15 January, 2012

News Corp. billionaire CEO Rupert Murdoch has come clean on how his company "screwed up" after buying social network MySpace. Says the CEO on Twitter: "Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons." The company purchased MySpace for $580 million in 2005, right at its peak. The company then quickly ... [ read the full article ]

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ivymike
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_ 		15. January 2012 @ 02:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Murdoch has the magic touch. Everything he touches turns to sh*t
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attar
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_ 		15. January 2012 @ 11:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably found that it was too difficult to breach other peoples privacy - not the same as listening in on a murdered kid's mobile messages.
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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		15. January 2012 @ 12:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Off topic..
Murdoch is also an old idiot. Being a proponent of SOPA he should be buried in a shallow grave.
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aldan
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_ 		15. January 2012 @ 17:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
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Murdoch is also an old idiot. Being a proponent of SOPA he should be buried in a shallow grave.
shot and pissed on.not necessarily in that order.
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o0cynix0o
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_ 		16. January 2012 @ 12:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by aldan:
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
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Murdoch is also an old idiot. Being a proponent of SOPA he should be buried in a shallow grave.
shot and pissed on.not necessarily in that order.
You forgot dragged into the street.
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xnonsuchx
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_ 		16. January 2012 @ 15:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know several people who quit using MySpace BECAUSE Newscorp bought it.
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hearme0
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_ 		17. January 2012 @ 12:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
While it is truly ridiculous to quit using something like MySpace because "Newscorp bought it", it goes without saying that MySpace was a dead concept for a couple of primary reasons. 1 being it's a haven for child predators and 2, Facebook emerged.

MySpace is a waste of time and money.
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robertmro
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_ 		27. January 2012 @ 11:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There's not much good anybody can say about Murdock.
I'm finally in agreement with the hoi polli.
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