Jared Lee Loughner, who allegedly shot at a crowd of people in a Tucson shopping center in Arizona yesterday, had his MySpace profile removed.  Loughner was arrested after Saturday’s mass shooting at the Arizona shopping center where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting her constituents.  Giffords sustained a serious head injury and is now being treated at a local hospital in the intensive care unit.

Six of the eighteen people shot Saturday morning were killed. June M. Roll, chief …

Struggling social networking turned social media website MySpace is getting ready to begin a drastic restructuring program that will cut must of its international staff.  The move comes ahead of an expected sale of MySpace, which has been under pressure from its owner, NewsCorp, to increase revenues.

MySpace has been working hard to keep up with Facebook for about two years and seems to be about to concede the battle.  MySpace last year reduced its U.S. staff by 400 employees down to 1,000, …

Struggling social networking /media website MySpace is currently finalizing layoff plans that could see up to 50% of its 1,100 employees loose their jobs.  MySpace is based mainly in the United States.

Final decisions about what employees will be layed off have not yet been made yet although all of MySpace staff were given the last week of December off in order to save money.  NewsCorp owns MySpace and has been insisting it take drastic cost cutting steps because revenue and website …

MySpace has promised to take three specific steps to protect user privacy after it was discovered that a developer had given user IDs to a data broker.  The social entertainment website said it will encrypt MySpace user IDs, use anonymous identifiers, and cease working with data brokers.

MySpace announced the new security procedures on Wednesday following reports that ad networks and data brokers had been given MySpace user IDs. MySpace announced in a blog post “We determined that a handful …

MySpace has launched a collection of fan management tools for bands through its partnership with marketing and promotion platform ReverbNation.  Reverb’s Fan Relationship Management Application will be integrated with the MySpace platform, giving bands the ability to organize and contact their fans, and also track analytics on MySpace and other social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

The new tools let artists migrate all of their contacts into MySpace, so that they can …

After months of uncertainty, MySpace and Google have finalized a multi-year search and advertizing agreement, under which Google will power MySpace search queries and search advertizing and also provide more ad display services.  Terms of the agreement between News Corp’s social entertainment site and the search engine giant were not disclosed.

News Corp was guaranteed $900 million over three years for the right to sell Google advertizing on MySpace and other smaller News Corp websites, …

Just over a week after they released their latest disc, “The Beginning”, the Black Eyed Peas are the first celebrities to take part in MySpace’s Hijack program, which was introduced to help boost the website’s entertainment offerings.  The Hijack project lets fans and MySpace users get to know more about celebrities, and gives them access to products and exclusive content.

During the Black Eyed Peas MySpace Hijack, fans can see the band’s featured playlist, play a new 8 bit …

Mike Jones, chief executive officer of MySpace, said the social networking website is not currently involved in any discussions over its sale or merger. Jones, speaking on the sidelines of “LeWeb” conference in Paris, said “I will be involved in any discussions that happen. Right now there are no discussions”.

NewsCorp bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, but the website fell behind Facebook, lost ground against other rivals, and has been working hard at becoming more profitable.  …