Justin Timberlake and Ad Company Get MySpace for a Song
(Reuters) - News Corp. has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based startups is enjoying sky-high valuations. Advertising company Specific Media will team with the singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which swooped in to buy Myspace for $580 million in 2005. The sale was a boon for the venture firms that backed MySpace's parent company, Intermix Media (formerly known as eUniverse). VantagePoint Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures invested a total of $12 million in Intermix over two rounds, according to Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). VantagePoint put $8 million into Intermix at a post-money valuation of $51.72 million in November 2003, while VantagePoint and Redpoint each put up
