Posts Tagged ‘staff’

ReadWriteWeb’s 2012 Staff Predictions (And What We Got Wrong in 2011) – ReadWriteWeb

We nailed a few of our guesses informed forecasts: 2011 saw the arrival of a $200 tablet, a Verizon iPhone, and Spotify in the U.S. We rightly predicted that Kevin Rose would leave Digg, NewsCorp would sell Myspace, and that HTML5 would begin to hit the big time.

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MySpace exits top 10 UK social sites – Tech Watch

The demise of MySpace is complete, it would seem. This year hasn’t been a good one for the site which was once the foremost social network. At the start of this year, MySpace announced massive job cuts, shedding half its staff. User numbers …

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Eye-witness testimony continues in MH vehicular manslaughter trial – Gilroy Dispatch

Rory Tomasello is shown in a photo from his MySpace page. He died in 2009 at the age of 22. Photo by: Staff The witness who was closest to the traffic accident that led to Rory Tomasello’s death testified Tuesday that he has always approached the …

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New Myspace owner cuts 8% of staff – msnbc.com

Specific Media, the Irvine targeted advertising company that bought Myspace in June, has laid off 8 percent of its staff, according to TechCrunch. Half of Myspace’s staff of 450 was laid off in June when Specific Media and singer Justin …

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You Know What’s Cool? Not Myspace – TechCrunch

Myspace savior Specific Media laid off 8% of its staff yesterday, about 50 people. Those laid off were mostly Myspace employees, presumably eagerly awaiting their severance package according to one source; “The people that [sic] got let go …

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