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Re:MySpace’s Tom Gets $500k Per Year to Stop Coming to Work by staunch on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @05:01PM (#671156)
> ...what became the world’s top social network, only to see it lose its edge under News Corp.

I think it's fair to blame acquirers in many cases, but based on MySpace's history they may have done better under News Corp than they would have done independently.

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Re:MySpace’s Tom Gets $500k Per Year to Stop Coming to Work by robryan on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @11:21PM (#671523)
I don't think the founders would be to concerned, they made there millions.

It wouldn't have done much better solo unless they had seriously changed there engineering and removed all the backwards compatability.

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