MSNBC just reported that Ruppert Murdoch has dropped it’s bid to acquire British Sky Broadcasting (bSKYb).
The whole phone hacking scandal in the U.K. is evolving at a major clip. Here’s a round-up from the past 24 hours. The WSJ (a Murdoch company) is reporting the Ruppert Murdoch is considering selling News International as an attempt to save News Corp over all. Murdoch has already put feelers out to see if […]
The phone hacking scandal that has plagued the U.K. and gripped the attention of the world could really come home here in the U.S. now. News Corp is an American corporation, and while the entire hacking scandal has been solely in the U.K. (as far as we know), the U.S. does have laws against what […]
U.S. shareholders of News Corp are not happy at all over the Murdoch empires handling of the phone hacking scandal. Shareholders called it “inconceivable” that directors were not aware sooner of the questionable news practices that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid, given that news of the hackings first surfaced […]
Yesterday NewsCorp unveiled their new subscription based iPhone app. This was apparently huge news for the people at FOX: But at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, while MSNBC and CNN ran breaking news alerts and reported live from Cairo, Fox and Fox Business reported live from the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to bring viewers the unveiling […]
Every year we hear about fights going on between the cable television companies and the actual networks, and every year we hear threats that “you won’t be able to see these channels after midnight on New Years Eve”. This year it is FOX and Time Warner: Time Warner Cable Inc. and News Corp. traded barbs […]
According to a report in the Financial Times, Microsoft has approached News Corp. about de-listing their sites from Google, which would be an apparent escalation in the search engine wars. It appears that Microsoft isn’t limiting this to just News Corp either. It’s reported that they are approaching numerous online publishers and offering to pay […]
I had almost forgot about this deal between Google and MySpace, a NewsCorp company. In 2006 the two entered into an agreement. Basically Google would get exclusive search advertising rights in exchange for $900 million over three years. MySpace also had to guarantee a minimum amount of traffic. That was all three years ago and […]
Rupert Murdoch really did open a can of worms when he said he was going to pull all of his content from Google. TechDirt decided to take a look at the hypocrisy that surrounds the media mogul when it comes to using other’s content: As Rupert Murdoch talks about how he wants to cut off […]
Good luck with that: Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch told analysts in a conference call after News Corp released its full-year results that the traditional […]