Myspace bought out for $580m

[bugzy]

http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-news19jul19,1,4551083.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter

[Fritz]

way to go tom... you bastard

[LAZY TURBO]

godddddddddddddddddddddd daym thats a lot of money

[mike]

well someone is getting an early retirement, and a nice one at that.

[Troike]

Ahahaha .. that guy is genius. and maybe the server speed won't suck now.

[FunkTron]

haha...i deleted his ass off my friends list right from the get go....maybe i should have left him on there. :P

[GTiGirl]

Too bad it's going to be owned by the most coservative of the media conglomerates :(

[madajb]

$580 million for a company that made 4 and a half million last year...
There's logic in there somewhere, but I guess that's why Rupert's a billionaire and I'm not. heh.
-ajb

[GTIblurr]

Tom is not even the true owner he is just the president of the company. Fox Media is the new TRUE owner. They plan on bringing media to MySpace and MySpace to Media.

That is what his $580,000,000 purchase was for.

[Troike]

Oh christ, Fox bought MySpace?

Looks like I might now have to break the addiction ... but not until I find something else equally worthy of wasting my time =\

[Fritz]

why does every post turn into bush/fox bashing? goddamn liberals are even more sensitive than i thought.. "oh boo hoo, the Man is taking over myspace, what in ever will i do?"

your party lost, and Fox > CNN, deal with it.. sore losers.

go ahead and speak your piece ajb, i know i just put a thorn in your toe that you just wont be able to get out unless you do.

[madajb]

why does every post turn into bush/fox bashing? goddamn liberals are even more sensitive than i thought.. "oh boo hoo, the Man is taking over myspace, what in ever will i do?"

your party lost, and Fox > CNN, deal with it.. sore losers.

go ahead and speak your piece ajb, i know i just put a thorn in your toe that you just wont be able to get out unless you do.

Umm...I think you have me confused with someone else...
-ajb

[creanium]

Umm...I think you have me confused with someone else...
-ajb

I was just thinking the same thing ...

[SYNYSTAGLI]

haha...i deleted his ass off my friends list right from the get go....maybe i should have left him on there. :P
lol, i did the same thing...I was like "WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FOOL?" He's one smart ass fool.... :tup: :tup:

[Fritz]

no... i dont. you always seem to play the antagonist. no matter what the topic is, you always post a disagreement of some sort, with a pretentious remark or two.

[SYNYSTAGLI]

who's serve?

[Troike]

why does every post turn into bush/fox bashing? goddamn liberals are even more sensitive than i thought.. "oh boo hoo, the Man is taking over myspace, what in ever will i do?"

your party lost, and Fox > CNN, deal with it.. sore losers.


Whoa there, lets not jump to conclusions .. I hate Fox because it represents a corporate evil, just like McDonalds, the oil monopolies, Pharmaceutical industries, etc. Politics has nothing to do with it.

Look at the trash programming Fox puts on TV. It is absolutely repulsive and despicable. Of course, I fully support the right for it to exist, but I also support my right to abhor it and speak my mind about the filth and stupidity disseminated by Fox, or any other corporate entity.

And since you had to turn it political, I hate liberals and conservatives equally. Chill our, Sergeant.

[madajb]

I was just thinking the same thing ...
I'm just misunderstood. heh.

Only a completely unrelated note, did you know your sig is blocked by adblock on mozilla. I'm guessing because it has "banner" in the filename.

-ajb

[creanium]

I'm just misunderstood. heh.

Only a completely unrelated note, did you know your sig is blocked by adblock on mozilla. I'm guessing because it has "banner" in the filename.

-ajb

It takes a while to become completely accustomed to the way that is Alan. :)

and can you see my sig now?

[madajb]

It takes a while to become completely accustomed to the way that is Alan. :)

and can you see my sig now?
I prefer the _Tao_, it sounds more mysterious that way.
heh.

Yeah, works fine now.

-ajb

[ElecMoHwk]

I just wish I had a cut of that paycheck... screw the politics and all that crap, It's all about the benjamins. I guess the guy that started it's partent company and then got fired a few years ago is gonna walk away with $58M of his own out of this. Thats pretty cool for a guy that got fired from his own company.

[bugzy]

im sure there's plenty of investors in that company or something

i know compared to friendster, which is actually run by a smaller group of people than myspace

and dont forgot to support the people who help us host SCE's site ;)

maybe one day Fox will buy one of their sites and ill get a cut ;)

www.findapix.com
www.onlineshowoff.com
www.mixture.com
www.appz.com

[Troike]

and dont forgot to support the people who help us host SCE's site ;)

maybe one day Fox will buy one of their sites and ill get a cut ;)



lol .. don't sell us out Lon! :p

I wonder where Vortex might go, they're already strictly moderated, thanks to the Vortex Media Gruppe thing ... and with the transformation of the Car Lounge into the CarLounge.net (rather than just Vortex), seems like they might try to become an actual online/automotive media outlet.
Could mean good things though, its already such a huge community, it would be pretty damn innovative to make it legitimate as more than just a forum.

of course, there's so much bickering and hate permeating virtually every forum (or at least all the ones I frequent - Car Lounge, Regionals, sometimes mkIII) that the damage will be hard to reverse.