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February 15, 2010
Owen Van Natta Officially Out The Door
By Danny Brown
(News & Analysis) - MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta is being forced to step down effectively immediately after just 10 months as the head of the struggling social networking site. Van Natta will be replaced by newly-elevated co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, who will each report to Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO of Digital Media for parent News Corporation.

In many ways Miller and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch set this train in motion' when they hired all three executives in April of 2009.' Van Natta, the former COO of Facebook became CEO, Mike Jones, the founder and CEO of Userplane (acquired by AOL) wsas hired as COO and Jason Hirschhorn, the former president of SlingMedia, was brought in to be Chief Product Office. MySpace suddenly had three leaders with strong... Continue Reading
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