Network World Fusion - Despite daily headlines demonstrating the potential risks - as well as growing parental concern -- most local school districts still have no policy governing in-school or after-hours use of social networking Web sites such as...

Asia Media - Softbank Corp. and News Corp. of the U.S. said Tuesday they are teaming up to launch a Japanese version of the MySpace.com social networking Web site. News recently acquired the popular Web site in the United States. Softbank and News will...

CNET News - MySpace, the wildly popular social network, is considering letting its millions of members transport their profile data to other sites or social networks by introducing so-called APIs, or application protocol interface, according to Ross...

USA Today - Several MySpace pages offer what appear to be YouTube videos that trigger installation of adware when played, a security company has warned. The sexually explicit videos can be found on a number of user pages on the MySpace social networking...

The Inquirer - THE BLOKE who helped launch MySpace in 2003, but left to form another company, is suing MySpace's new owner News Corp. Brad Greenspan says that Rupert Murdoch's outfit has broken antitrust laws by censoring competitor services. He said...

Hollywood Reporter - NEW YORK -- MySpace made its expected move into Japan official Tuesday, unveiling a 50-50 joint venture with Softbank Corp. to launch MySpace Japan. It is the News Corp. social networking site's first foray into the Asian market (HR...

MarketingVOX - News Corp.'s plan to bring MySpace to the world continues as a Japanese version of the wildly-popular social-networking site is set to launch. News Corp. is teaming with Japanese technology investment group Softbank for the launch, the...

Detroit News - SHELBY TOWNSHIP -- Macomb County's top cop warned parents Tuesday about the potential dangers their children face on the Internet after a 22-year-old man was charged with having sex with an underage girl he met on the popular MySpace.com...

Oregonian - T he alarming photos arrived at Sean Burke's desk out of the blue one day last spring, unveiling a new Internet dilemma and spurning controversy at McMinnville High School. Several McMinnville student-athletes had been exposed on the Internet...

Indy Channel - TOKYO -- Internet social networking giant MySpace and Japan's Softbank have announced plans for a 50-50 joint venture to bring the popular site to Asia. MySpace KK will be run mostly separately from its U.S.-based parent company. The...

WebProNews - MySpace said "hajime-mashite" (nice to meet you) to Japan today as the News Corp.-owned site teamed up for a 50/50 venture with Japanese telecom powerhouse Softbank Corp. to launch MySpace KK (MySpace Japan). "The launch of a Japanese...

Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp. (9984.T: Quote , NEWS , Research ) and News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) (NWS.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) said they will tie up to offer the MySpace.com...

PhysOrg - (AP) -- News Corp. and Japan's Softbank Corp. announced plans Tuesday to bring MySpace, the popular Internet social networking site, to Asia. The 50-50 joint venture MySpace KK will be run mostly separately from News Corp., the site's New...

Red Herring - Can MySpace make it big in Japan ? The 126-million member social networking service Tuesday announced the launch MySpace KK, a version of its social network for Japanese-speaking users. The service will debut on the web and, later, on cell...

ABC News - Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, right, bows as SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son looks on before the start of a press conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006. MySpace and Japan's Softbank Corp. announced plans Tuesday for a...

MSNBC - TOKYO - Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp. and News Corp. said Tuesday they will tie up to offer the MySpace.com online community site in Japan. The two companies have agreed to set-up a 50-50 joint venture for MySpace in Japan...

Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp. and News Corp. said they will tie up to offer the MySpace.com online community site in Japan The two companies have agreed to set-up a 50-50 joint venture for MySpace in...

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones...

MSN MoneyCentral - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is to team up with Softbank, the Japanese technology investment group, to launch a local version of MySpace, the US online social networking site it recently acquired, to capitalise on surging demand for...

Advocate - To increase awareness of the upcoming Thom Fitzgerald film 3 Needles and to raise money to combat AIDS, filmmakers have pledged to donate money for every "friend" who signs on to a special MySpace page. The film will be released on December 1...

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones...

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones...

Red Herring - MySpace plans to launch a service for Japanese-speaking users on the web and later on cell phones, with the assistance of Japanese tech powerhouse Softbank, according to reports Monday. Social networks are a huge success in Japan ,...

Boston Globe - TOKYO -- News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said Monday a joint venture with Japan's Softbank Corp. to bring the popular Internet social-networking site MySpace to Japan was "a possibility." "That's certainly a possibility,"...

IT World - News Corp. launched a Japanese version of its MySpace social networking service Monday. The site, which has grown to become one of the most popular destinations on the English-language Internet, is already available in national versions for...

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones...

MSN MoneyCentral - TOKYO (AP) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said Monday a joint venture Japan's Softbank Corp. to bring the popular Internet social networking site MySpace to Japan was possible. His comments in Tokyo speech came after news reports said...

MSNBC - Rupert Murdoch has said News Corp is in talks to team up with Softbank to launch a Japanese version of MySpace, the social networking website it recently acquired, to capitalise on surging demand in Japan for online communities. An announcement...

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones...

Chatmag.com - The Friends of MySpace is opposed to recent legislation introduced by Pennsylvania congressman, Michael Fitzpatrick, which includes prohibiting public schools and libraries from providing access to social-networking sites like MySpace.com....

Reuters - TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s MySpace.com online service will be launched in Japan in a joint venture with Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp., the Nihon Keizai business daily reported on Monday. The 50-50 venture, to be...

KGO - Nov. 5 - KGO - It's the coolest place in cyberspace, the place to see and be seen by other teens, but increasingly Myspace.com is becoming a scary space for parents, a generation unsure of how to navigate the complexities and the potential pitfalls...

NobodySmiling - The rapper located his long-lost sister on the community website. No word on whether she accepted his friend request. The Game has 173,609 MySpace friends, but the one person he might be itching to ensure accepts his friend request is his...

Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) (NWS.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) MySpace.com Internet business will be launched in Japan this month in a joint venture with Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank...

MSNBC - Nov. 13, 2006 issue - Tapping into the closed Japanese market can be as difficult as learning the language. A decade ago, Rupert Murdoch's attempt with local Internet powerhouse SoftBank to buy broadcaster TV Asahi was so widely viewed as a...

NobodySmiling - The rapper located his long-lost sister on the community website. No word on whether she accepted his friend request. The Game has 173,609 MySpace friends, but the one person he might be itching to ensure accepts his friend request is his...

Bismarck Tribune - WHEELING, W.Va. - A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of Wheeling, was arrested in September for trespassing at an elementary...

Wichita Eagle - This isn't a joke, and it isn't spam. Julio Guerra, a 20-year-old Wichitan, really wants to be your friend -- if you're young, Hispanic and on Myspace.com. Guerra, who works as an operations manager at a hair salon and at a furniture...

MSNBC - Nov. 13, 2006 issue - Tapping into the closed Japanese market can be as difficult as learning the language. A decade ago, Rupert Murdoch's attempt with local Internet powerhouse SoftBank to buy broadcaster TV Asahi was so widely viewed as a...

Patriot Ledger - School officials are concerned about a new phenomenon in which teachers are venturing into the online social network known as MySpace.com . Some teachers appear to adopt the approach of an online chaperone seeking to make inroads with...

Post-Tribune - It could have been his shot at the big time. Chesterton-raised, San Diego-based rapper Kevin "Juice" Orange was one of just three finalists in a MySpace music contest that pulled submissions from over 600 amateur musicians. The winner...

Charleston Post & Courier - COLUMBIA - Two Clinton Public Safety officers have resigned after they were questioned about racial comments and inappropriate images on their MySpace.com Web pages. Scott Bodie, 24, and Chase Cummings, 20, violated the...

Bismarck Tribune - WHEELING, W.Va. - A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of Wheeling, was arrested in September for trespassing at an elementary...

Intelligencer - WHEELING — West Virginia State Police Sgt. Scott Adams says he had “plenty of information” to arrest a sex offender for not registering his alleged MySpace page. Adams received a tip that convicted sex offender Christian Paul Dutton had...

WSB-TV Atlanta - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Two Clinton Public Safety officers have resigned after they were questioned about racial comments and inappropriate images on their MySpace.com Web pages. Chief John Thomas says 24-year-old police officer Scott Bodie...

WTKR - A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of Wheeling, was arrested in September for trespassing at an elementary school but later released. He...

PhysOrg - (AP) -- A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of Wheeling, was arrested in September for trespassing at an elementary school but later...

Boston Herald - S AN JOSE, Calif. - An early investor in MySpace sued the popular social networking Web site on Thursday, claiming the company violated antitrust laws by blocking links to his new online video-sharing venture. Brad Greenspan, chief...

Cincinnati Enquirer - A Hamilton County judge Thursday lectured a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on an Internet social networking site, but included the victim in her warning about the dangers of meeting people online. Hamilton County...

Eyewitness News - WHEELING, W.Va. -- A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking Web site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Web Site: Dutton's Sex Offender Page Christian Paul Dutton, 47, was arrested in September for...

Star-Banner - SAN JOSE, Calif. - An early investor in MySpace sued the popular social networking Web site on Thursday, claiming the company violated antitrust laws by blocking links to his new online video-sharing venture. Brad Greenspan, chief executive...

Playfuls -  As US Congressional elections approach next week, an embattled Republican senator in Pennsylvania is down in the polls - but he still has lots of friends. More than 6,000 young people have tagged Senator Rick Santorum as a candidate they...

Silicon Valley - Despite supercharged growth in the 18 months since News Corp. created Fox Interactive -- a 1,400-employee unit that oversees Fox's Web sites, including MySpace -- the division isn't having the best of fall seasons. In the latest sign of...

Silicon Valley - SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - An early investor in MySpace sued the popular social networking Web site on Thursday, claiming the company violated antitrust laws by blocking links to his new online video-sharing venture. Brad Greenspan, chief...

Bismarck Tribune - WHEELING, W.Va. - A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of Wheeling, was arrested in September for trespassing at an elementary...

Daily Comet - An early investor in MySpace sued the popular social networking Web site on Thursday, claiming the company violated antitrust laws by blocking links to his new online video-sharing venture. Brad Greenspan, chief executive of Los...

WebProNews - When capitalizing on the social networking explosion, it's best to not be too obvious that you're ripping off somebody else - especially when everybody knows that somebody else and the high-priced lawyers that come with. For example, a site...

WSB-TV Atlanta - ATLANTA -- A doctor who practices at Grady Hospital is behind bars accused of using the internet to prey on a 15-year-old boy. Coweta County detectives say 47-year-old Dr. Adam Lebowitz was caught at the boy’s house with condoms and...

Earthtimes - LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Brad Greenspan filed a lawsuit today in Federal District Court in Los Angeles thru his LiveUniverse company, accusing News Corp's MySpace of ramping up the practice of censoring MySpace users from using or...

Intelligencer - WHEELING —A convicted sex offender arrested in September for trespassing at a Wheeling elementary school is now behind bars for his Internet activity. Christian Paul Dutton, 47, of 10 Bow St., Wheeling, is being held in the Northern...

KDKA - (AP) ST. PAUL, Minn. A White Bear Lake girl involved in an alcohol-related crash that killed two teenagers has apparently said the crash was her fault on MySpace.com. Ramsey County investigators have obtained a search warrant to get records from...

First Coast News - LOS ANGELES (AP) -- MySpace.com will use "audio fingerprinting" technology to block users from uploading copyright music to the social networking site, the company said Monday. MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.,...

Las Vegas Sun - The focus of today's workshop, the first of its kind for the Clark County School District, is MySpace.com. That Internet Web site is, for children and adults alike, the new telephone party line, chain letter, bulletin board and Friday...

Digital Collegian - A recent investigation by Wired News found more than 700 registered sex offenders have profiles on the social networking site MySpace.com . Kevin Poulsen, a reporter for Wired News, said he conducted the investigation over a period of...

WCCO - (AP) St. Paul A White Bear Lake girl involved in an alcohol-related crash that killed two teenagers has apparently said the crash was her fault on MySpace.com . (Warning: link contains strong language.) Ramsey County investigators have obtained a...

San Francisco Gate - Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Users create profiles about themselves, link to their friends and post photos, messages and...

WTOV 9 - A registered sex offender posted his photo on a MySpace.com account - and police said it was the same photo used on the state's sex offender registry. Christian Paul Dutton is charged with failing to register his MySpace account with the state....

Motley Fool - News Corp. 's (NYSE: NWS) MySpace may be erring on the side of caution in its recent move to block copyrighted musical material within its social networking site. But people who count on MySpace continuing to be hot virtual real estate may...

School Library Journal - Kids will be kids, but the mean ones will have to face the consequences: In the wake of student-generated fake and defamatory profiles of educators on MySpace and other social networking sites, some school districts are imposing...

KYW News radio - It seems the goal of web sites such as myspace.com is to allow users to network with as many people as possible. But is it possible for a networking site to become too popular? "Everybody's got like hundreds and hundreds of friends and...

MSN MoneyCentral - In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year," blared a headline in the Washington Post on October 29, 2006. In an article by Yuki Noguchi, the newspaper reported that, "Social sites find a fickle audience," and that some teens are now...

Daily Comet - Are you a young adult, in particular a middle- or high-school student, who has your own Myspace or other Internet social-network page? Or are you a parent who is concerned about the rise in popularity of Web sites used by teenagers to...

MarketingVOX - MySpace will begin using a content-filtering system to track down music tracks that aren't authorized, and remove them, Reuters reports . The technology, which is being licensed from private digital entertainment company Gracenote, will be...

Out-Law - Market leading social networking site MySpace will use filtering software to block copyrighted music hosted without permission on members' pages, the site said. It will permanently delete the accounts of people who upload tunes a number of...