Posts Tagged ‘owen van natta

Zynga, the social gaming company that makes apps for both Facebook and MySpace, now has one additional connection to those two companies.  Zynga named Owen Van Natta Executive Vice President of Business Operations this afternoon. Van Natta was, as you may remember, Facebook’s COO for a while.  He served as CEO of MySpace for a [...]

MySpace has announced that Co-President Jason Hirschorn has decided to leave the company, marking the exit of yet another top-level executive from the declining social network. Jon Miller, the chief digital office of News Corp, revealed in a statement that Hirschorn decided to leave — he was not fired — and is moving back to [...]

Ever since Owen Van Natta stepped down as CEO of MySpace last month, there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the future of the social networking site. Can it function with two co-presidents? Can it turn things around and restart its growth? Can it remake and re-imagine itself for today’s social web? We know [...]

Owen Van Natta, who only joined MySpace in April of last year, will no longer serve as its CEO.  Reports indicate that he’s in fact been fired, and MySpace has at least confirmed that Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who reported to Van Natta, are becoming co-presidents. This series of developments comes as a big [...]

Owen Van Natta made waves when he became MySpace CEO in April 2009 after having previously served as a high-ranking exec at Facebook. But his effort to revitalize the once top social network has come to an end tonight after less than 10 months on the job, as Van Natta has resigned from MySpace, effective [...]


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