Myspace set to be sold, but who would buy it?

It’s far from a secret thatMyspacehas been in trouble for some time. Huge recentlayoffshave been accompanied bytalkthat the company’s future was being judged in quarters, not years. Now parent company News Corp says that it’s looking to sell all, or at least some, of Myspace. As Paid Contentreports, COO Chase Carey explained yesterday, “The new MySpace has been very well received by the market and we have some very encouraging metrics....

3 min · 629 words · Richard Fuentes

Myspace to “lay off 550 to 600 employees tomorrow”

Myspace is on the verge of cutting its workforce in half, laying off up to 600 employees as soon as tomorrow according toLiz Gannes at AllThingsD. We reported at theend of Decemberthat the company’s 1,100 employees, a large majority of them residing in the US, were faced with being laid off as management looked at ways to cut costs after revenues and traffic have fallen. In June 2009, Myspacecut 300 jobs, shut four offices and lost its international Managing Director from its European operations, signifying what looked to be the beginning of the end for the once-popular social network....

2 min · 342 words · Nicholas Bell DDS

Mysterious cosmic ray electrons have been spotted for the first time

Mysterious cosmic ray electrons have been spotted for the first time Why is everyone so negative about electrons? Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from theSunexpel shock waves of hot gas and energy at speeds around 1.6 million kilometers per hour (one million MPH). Even at speeds that could circle the Earth 40 times a second, it still takes nearly a year for these shock waves to reach the Voyager spacecraft. Cosmic ray electrons — negatively-charged subatomic particles racing from the Sun — are propelled by shock waves from a powerful stellar eruption....

4 min · 742 words · Teresa Owens

MyStream launches the first free iOS app to share music over WiFi

Have you ever tried to share a pair of headphones on the subway train, only to have someone’s bulky body knock the buds painfully from your ears and disturb your listening experience? I have, quite a few times, which is why I’m very, very excited aboutMyStream, the first free app that enables music sharing across iOS devices over WiFi or Bluetooth. “Back when wireless headphones came out, and I could also play a song for a friend out of a portable stereo system, I thought, why can’t I play this song for both me and a friend in both of our own headphones?...

4 min · 758 words · Christopher Walker

mySugr seeks to change the diabetic world

For those that live with Diabetes, and are treated with insulin, it’s a constant battle of checking, adjusting, rechecking, readjusting, repeat–a constant battle between one’s own mind, and one’s own “broken” pancreas. According tothe World Health Organization (WHO), there are currently more than 346 million individuals worldwide that live with diabetes, or 5.1% of the global population. Symptoms of diabetes includepolyuria(frquent urination),polydipsia(elevated thirst), andpolyphagia(increased hunger). When left unchecked, a diabetic could suffer fromhypoglycemia(low blood glucose),diabetic keotoacidosis(extremely high blood glucose, due to lack of insulin), andNonketotic hyperosmolar coma....

6 min · 1156 words · Randall Waller
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