Can MySpace Rise From The Dead?

MySpace was Facebook before Facebook was Facebook, and now the social network is attempting to reinvent itself once again with its debut of a thoroughly rebuilt platform and a new iOS application.

MySpace was Facebook before Facebook was Facebook, and now the social network is attempting to reinvent itself once again with its debut of a thoroughly rebuilt platform and a new iOS application.

News Corp. paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, but the once-prominent social network faded quickly, with the media giant selling it to Specific Media for just $35 million in June 2011.

Justin Timberlake may have brought sexy back, but he didn’t do too much for MySpace after it was announced in November 2011 that he would join the company.

The two former rival social networks began working together recently, as MySpace deepened its integration with Facebook last September, and some Facebook pages for musicians began adding the option to “listen using MySpace” in March.

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