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That was his simple and succinct tweet Thursday night, adding that, "[we] learned lots of valuable expensive lessons." In case you've missed it, the News Corp. chairman is now on Twitter and his every tweet is getting examined closely. News Corp. bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, and then saw the bottom fall out before finally unloading the L.A.-based social networking site last year for $35 million. (The Wrap)
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.