MySpace Founder Hints He'd Like To Buy It Back

MySpace cofounder Chris DeWolfe hinted that he's interested in buying his old company back from News Corp.

DeWolfe's interest was rumored earlier this year, but yesterday in an interview with Businessweek, he issued a non-denial denial that suggests he's strongly interested:

I can't talk about whether we have any interest in buying Myspace now—it's a confidential process—but it's the biggest property for sale at what, in this market, would be a somewhat reasonable price. You always care if there's an asset that you feel is undervalued when you had a plan to develop it.

DeWolfe runs social gaming company MindJolt now.

He says that he's open to working on any platform: "It doesn't matter if you play on Facebook or your smartphone. We're not wedded to one platform. I'd love to work with Myspace again."

It's hard to imagine anybody turning MySpace around, but at least he understands the pitfalls: you can't just compete with dominant players like Facebook and Twitter. You have to "outflank" them, he says.

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Apple COO Hints At Cheaper iPhone, Saying, We Don't Want To Be For "Just The Rich" (AAPL)

Apple COO Tim Cook strongly suggested we will see a cheaper iPhone in the near future in an interview with Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi.

Cook says Apple is doing "clever things" to attack the prepaid market, because he doesn't want Apple to be "for everyone," not "just for the rich." Cook also recognizes "price is big factor in the prepaid market," but Apple is not "ceding any market."

He also says Apple has been driving into China which is "a classic prepaid market."

Add it all up, and sure sounds like Apple is ready to drop some sort of cheaper phone to open up the markets it can address.

One other thing of note from Sacconaghi: He says Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said Apple would not let carriers dictate terms, which Sacconaghi says reinforces, "the notion that Apple might be willing to act to disintermediate carriers with a soft-SIM."

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Android Team Hints That 'Gingerbread' Release Is Imminent

Google's Android team has dropped another big hint that the next version of the mobile OS, codenamed 'Gingerbread', will be released in the very near future.

A new video was just uploaded to the official Android developer team YouTube account, showing the team unloading and installing a massive gingerbread man at their campus. The Android team has similar dessert statues for each of the previous versions of Android.

Check it out:

(via Boy Genius Report)

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