MySpace's business incubator company exposes senior executives to leave

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Myspace
Foreign media reports, the founder of the U.S. Science and Technology blog TechCrunch Michael Al (Michael Arrington) wrote in Sunday, from the social networking site MySpace split out of the incubator company Slingshot Labs (hereinafter referred to as "slingshot" Several senior executives have recently left, including President Josh Bermain (Josh Berman) and executive vice president of strategy and product Gos Bokadin (Diego berkadin). The two people have reportedly submitted their resignation letter to Joen Miller, chief executive of News Corp, last week. Like most of the former MySpace executives, the two are likely to start their own company. For Slingshot, Berman and Boca's departure are at the most critical period of the company's development.  There have been reports that Slingshot is developing a business social product for the Wall Street Journal that could become the "LinkedIn killer". Slingshot has cut half of its staff before, and half the rest are working to develop the new social network. News Corp has previously planned to cut all slingshot employees, but if the social networking site succeeds, those workers will be left behind.  Slingshot, a company founded in February 2008, has a start-up fund of $15 million, with News Corp holding 90% of the company and the rest owned by Slingshot. Slingshot The company's first product, daily Fill, at the beginning of this year, and the product is performing very well. MySpace has made a major upgrade to its Long-lost myspace events this March. Users login to the MySpace homepage to visit the "activity" link, the page will jump to the MySpace app named "Social Program" (Social plan). And Slingshot is the main force behind the upgrade of MySpace activity.  After that, Slingshot employees involved in the upgrading of the MySpace program were all included in MySpace and became full-time employees of the latter. Notably, Berman was the chief operating officer of the social networking site when MySpace was bought by News Corp. After being acquired, including former chief executive Chris Deworf Chris DeWolfe, former President Anderson (Tom Anderson), former chief technology officer Aber Whitkambo (Aber Whitcomb) and former senior marketing vice President Colin Digalo (Colin Digiaro) has resigned from a number of MySpace executives.
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