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Justin Timberlake buys stake in MySpace

30.06.11
Justin Timberlake has bought a controlling stake in MySpace and plans to turn the social networking website into a major entertainment portal after purchasing the site for just $35 million... more

First 'gang asbo' to stop teenager from entering territory of rival youths

02.03.11
A teenager from Peckham has been served with the country's first gang injunction... more

Less space for MySpace as losses rise to $156m

04.11.10
The future of social networking website MySpace looks under threat as owner News Corporation brands its losses “not acceptable or sustainable”... more

MySpace relaunches website as it tries to catch Facebook

27.10.10
MySpace relaunches its website to focus on music and entertainment as it tries to regain its number one position in social networking ... more

Woman attacked by girl gang after internet war of words over boyfriend

28.09.10
Two young women abused and threatened each other on social networking sites in a row over a man which ended in a violent attack by a girl gang, a court heard... more

Twitter starts advertising with 'promoted tweets'

13.04.10
Social networking website Twitter is to allow advertising for the first time as it tries to mimic Google's successful search-ads system... more

Facebook forces AOL to pull the plug on Bebo

07.04.10
AOL is preparing to sell or close social networking website Bebo by the end of May ... more

Struggling MySpace loses chief after 10 months

11.02.10
MySpace, Rupert Murdoch’s troubled social networking website, has abruptly parted ways with chief executive Owen van Natta... more

Crazy for cute: why adults love to act like children

18.01.10
It’s become a global youth phenomenon as teenagers and adults regress to childhood. Christian Koch reports... more

What's your social capital?

21.12.09
We all know someone who boasts of their 200 friends on Facebook. But it’s not the number of online contacts you have, it’s how valuable they are... more

Capital girl: how we all fell for Lily Allen

11.12.09
Lily Allen has signed off MySpace, is moving into management and dreams of a rural family idyll in Gloucestershire. Whatever happened to the archetypal London girl, asks Hermione Eyre ... more

Sound check: Meet Ellie the MySpace stalker

30.10.09
Ellie Goulding got to work with the best producers by hunting them down on the internet — now her extraordinary sound is proving popular.... more

Introducing ... Sliimy, the French Mika

07.08.09
France’s new singer-songwriter Sliimy started posting songs on MySpace two years ago, but it was when Perez Hilton linked Sliimy’s cover of Britney’s ‘Womanizer’ on his infamous blog last December that things really took off... more

Lily Allen lays down the strict rules

10.12.08
The public playback of Lily Allen's new album fell a bit flat - with the singer leaving before the new record had even been played.... more

Off the record

07.11.08
A new wave of up-and-coming young women singers are digging out their sparkliest dresses and unashamedly going back to pop basics.... more

New Media

08.10.08
London is one of the greatest digital hotspots outside California's Silicon Valley and these are the people leading the way... more

Beats and bad rhymes at Bloody Awful Poetry

19.09.08
You'll love the bands, the bards and the boogying at quirky West End Club Madame Jo Jo's for the Bloody Awful Poetry night.... more

Accidental life and death

19.08.08
Actor Dan March faces up to unexpected fatherhood in Edinburgh play My Myspace Baby while The Plan, which dumps us at the other end of human existence, feels too short.... more

Off the record

25.07.08
Rain or shine, there are plenty of new tunes to party to this year and David Smyth gives us his take on those tipped for the top.... more

Raw talent in the shop window

02.06.08
The week-long, not-for-profit festival, City Showcase, features a programme of free gigs in Carnaby Street.... more

Yard detectives use Facebook to spy on gangs

24.04.08
Detectives are using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to target criminals and gangs... more

Hammer back from the grave with new movie

13.12.07
Hammer Films is making its first horror movie in 31 years. But instead of going to cinemas, Beyond The Rave will be shown in episodes on MySpace.... more

Horsepower for techno teens

29.11.07
Critics are calling War Horse one of the most enjoyable night's of their lives, and Gemma Hodges agrees. "It's wicked" says the 13-year-old.... more

Off the record

28.09.07
David Smyth has another listen to radio and meets the latest in the production line of MySpace led musicians, Colbie Caillat.... more

Hit band hasn't sold a single CD

10.08.07
The latest stars of MySpace, the Revelations, are set to storm the charts with their 60's girl group style, and all without a record deal.... more

US bars Lily Allen after run-in with photographer

07.08.07
Singer Lily Allen has been barred from entering America, meaning her tour of the country, scheduled for next month, is now under threat.... more

The new queen of MySpace

18.05.07
Perhaps it is a little early to be talking about the new Lily Allen - but with the old Lily Allen showing the strain, maybe she'd be happy to have the attention focused on Kate Nash instead.... more

Downloads of the week

11.12.06
Hard-Fi offer free downloads of their touring antics, Newton Faulkner's taster EP is in download stores now and Damon Albarn's latest venture play a free MySpace gig.... more

Welcome to Lily's world

07.11.06
Lily Allen's MySpace friends packed London's Astoria to see her, dressed like a chavvy Cleopatra, perform like the proper pop star she now is.... more


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