(25 January 2007 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: News Corp's social networking site, MySpace, plans to more than double the number of countries it will operate in by the end of the year.

Media reports state that the goal is to have a presence in 11 countries. This includes China. The company has test-launched a service in Mexico.

Meanwhile MySpace has sued an e-mail marketing executive for an unspecified amount of damages, saying that he and his company were behind millions of junk e-mail, or spam, messages sent to its customers' accounts.

MySpace filed the lawsuit against Scott Richter in US District Court in Los Angeles.