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The purchase of MySpace's parent company was $580 million. Apparently $327 million of that was "attributed" to MySpace itself.

Revenues are meaningless. MySpace last reported a profit in 2007, of $10 mil on $550 mil in revenue.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/fox-interactive-turns-annual-p...

Facebook then proceeded to eat MySpace's lunch.

August 2010 article about how News Corp. may never profit from MySpace:

http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/news-corp-may-...

MySpace's current market value is nowhere close to the $5 billion you claim. It has been hemorrhaging market share to Facebook for years.

Just check out the graphs.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/myspace.com

Steady drop toward zero.