Intermix Media, Inc. was a Los Angeles

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-based Internet marketing company founded in 1998 that owned the MySpace

MySpace

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 website. In April 2005 New York State attorney-general Eliot Spitzer

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 filed a lawsuit alleging the company was the source of secretly installed spyware

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 that illegally sent pop-up advertisements and other intrusions to millions of computer users.

In February 2004, Richard Rosenblatt

Richard Rosenblatt

Richard Rosenblatt is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media. He has built, operated, and sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies.-Early life:...

 became CEO of Intermix and Chairman of MySpace. Rosenblatt is credited with saving the company from bankruptcy. He restored the company to profitability and together with Chris Dewolfe and his team grew MySpace from an unknown web site to an explosive media property. Rosenblatt negotiated the sale of MySpace for $580 millions to Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

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's News Corp. and consulted to Fox for six months before founding Demand Media

Demand Media

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 in May 2006.

On July 20, 2005, News Corp. bought Intermix Media Inc., which held MySpace and other popular social network

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ing-themed websites for $580 million USD.

External links

• News Corp. Acquires Intermix Media (July 18, 2005)
• Interview with Richard Rosenblatt, former CEO of Intermix Media
• Company profile on Yahoo! Finance
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