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MySpace chief gears up for a face-off

Jonathan Richards (The Times) - 05 January 2008

At MySpace, they use the F-word a lot. Facebook may have double the number of syllables than most expletives, but in the offices of what was once the world?s ascendant social network, it is pronounced with all the malice of a four-letter word.  In the space of a year, MySpace?s greatest rival has gone from being a relatively unknown site used by Harvard students to the universal byword for ?social networking?, a technology colossus with 37 million users, an implied value ? based on the stake bought by Microsoft last year - of $15 billion (£7.6 billion). 
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