Disqus
We know News Corp is looking for ways to sell its once-Facebook-competitor – MySpace. Among the possible candidates to acquire the “once popular” social destination, I always envisioned some other media company like Sony or EMI. Apparently, those folks don’t want to repeat Rupert Murdoch’s mistakes and are leaving it to other players to jump on-board.
MocoSpace, which is the popular entertainment destination on mobile Internet, announced its interest in acquiring MySpace.
Those unfamiliar should know that MocoSpace began as a mobile social network allowing people to find friends and chat. Today it is a full entertainment destination, providing users with access to music, chat, social networking and HTML5 browser-based mobile social gaming.
Last March we reported MocoSpace has reached 11 million users, and then in September that it had raised $3.5 million from SoftBank. At the moment, MocoSpace has about 3 billion page views per month.
MocoSpace shares the same young, multicultural, demographics as MySpace and I presume that’s where they think synergies could be made.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
