Critic Bids for Intermix

A former Intermix (MIX) exec ratcheted up his bid to throw a monkey wrench into Rupert Murdoch's Internet ambitions.

Brad Greenspan, who was the CEO of Intermix predecessor eUniverse until October 2003, unveiled a competing proposal for Intermix Friday, though Intermix said it hadn't received any offer.

Greenspan's FreeMySpace group, which says it holds 10% of Intermix, offered $13.50 a share for what it called "a significant interest in Intermix." The bid comes two months after Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) reached a $12-a-share, $580 million agreement to buy the owner of the MySpace.com social networking Web site. ...