Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page service that has become wildly popular among Internet users, especially teens. Viacom did not lay out exactly how it would replicate its rival’s success with MySpace.com.
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Viacom Planning to Take on MySpace.com
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 2, 2006 02:10 PMViacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page service that has become wildly popular among Internet users, especially teens. Viacom did not lay out exactly how it would replicate its rival’s success with MySpace.com.