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• In Pictures: 9 tech companies' earliest website designs

  From Apple and Amazon to Myspace and AOL, here are some of the earliest website designs for some of the tech industry's biggest companies.

• News Corporation unloads MySpace

  MySpace, which dominated the social-networking market in the mid-2000s before Facebook eclipsed it, has been sold by its parent company News Corporation to digital media company Specific Media, the companies have announced.

• MS Outlook equipped for social networking

  Microsoft is adding social networking services, including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace, to its Outlook email client.

• 10 of the world's strangest social networks

  If you crave advice on sculpting the perfect mustache, revel in the dark and mysterious world of vampires or seek a divorce from your partner, yes, there's a social network for that. Here are 10 weird and truly niche social networking sites that strive to bring together some unusual birds of a feather.

• Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace

  Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.

• MySpace slashes international staff, close offices

  MySpace will slash its staff abroad and shutter several international offices, the News Corporation unit said on yesterday, a week after announcing a big round of layoffs in the US.

• Facebook use grows by 700%, maintains top spot

  In April, Facebook users spent 13.9 billion minutes on the site, a dramatic hike from the year-earlier total of 1.7 billion minutes, according to a report from The Nielsen Co. The 700% increase let Facebook easily maintain its place atop the social networking business.

• Former 'spam king' must pay MySpace US$6 million

  A Colorado man has been ordered to pay US$6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace.com users.

• Start-up gains MySpace as client

  MySpace is analysing massive amounts of data generated from its website using software developed by a start-up.

• Report: Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service

  As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.

• Kiwis take to Facebook

  Social networking site Facebook is gaining quickly on market leader MySpace in New Zealand.

• MySpace reaches deal with Vodafone in UK

  Vodafone Group is counting on the MySpace.com social networking site to drive its UK customers to use their mobile phones for more than just talking. The two companies have struck a deal to distribute software for updating a MySpace user profile from a mobile phone, the companies has announced.

• Turn on, tune in and drop out

  I had lunch this week with Microsoft’s new director of innovation, Brett Roberts. Brett’s been thinking, as is his wont, about the industry.