Los Angeles - LiveUniverse, the online entertainment network led by Brad Greenspan, the founder of original MySpace parent company Intermix Media, has acquired free personal home page creation service Pageflakes for an undisclosed sum, TechCrunch reports.

San Francisco - Pageflakes, a German Internet start-up that allows users to create small, movable versions of websites that they can arrange on their homepages, said on Tuesday that it has launched U.S. operations in San Francisco and hired Yahoo veteran Dan Cohen as its CEO. Cohen most recently served as the head of the My Yahoo business unit, and previously founded both Personity and USConnect. He will replace company founder Christoph Janz, who will assume the role of chief product officer.