Lots of scuttlebutt around Silicon Valley that new investment bank CODE Advisors is out pitching a MySpace spinoff to potential buyers and investors. Sources include people who’ve actually been pitched

We’ve had lots of emails from MySpace employees with their response to our most recent post about the crumbling mid level management structure . “If you’re a MySpace employee and feel differently, please contact us anonymously,” we said

Long ago Google unofficially abandoned the Don’t Be Evil mantra and replaced it with, no kidding, an “evil scale.” Sometimes you have to chose between the lesser of two weevils, as Patrick O’Brian would say . And frankly, just staying this side of decent is enough for most companies. ...

Aol launched Lifestream , a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall.

More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace : three key employees have left the company to join Gravity , a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur , SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto . We covered Gravity’s launch in December 2009. The three MySpacer’s ...

Troubled social networking giant MySpace has lost another key executive with the recent departure of John Faith , until recently General Manager and Vice President of MySpace Mobile.

In the summer of 2009 MySpace hired Katie Germinder , Facebook’s Director of User Experience and Design, as an SVP. Her primary job was to assemble a “swat team” of leading outside designers and user interface experts and re-imagine MySpace from the ground up.

MySpace’s new slogan, and the theme of their new product strategy, will be “Discover and be Discovered,” we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. This will be their differentiating factor from Facebook, execs told employees at an all hands meeting last Thursday. The meeting was called in the wake of the ...

MySpace has launched an activity and content stream, which they are calling simply the “Stream.” Previously they showed a feed of status updates from friends, but the new feature shows a lot more content, including things like music your friends are listening to on MySpace Music, video they’re watching, ...

RightSide Capital Management is about to change the funding landscape.