»  Rupert Murdoch wants to assure you that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will do much better in 2010. [Reuters]

»  Conde Nast is suing an anonymous blogger behind FashionZag for copyright violation after it posted unpublished photos and articles from an upcoming GQ magazine. The publisher says someone hacked into its system to get the GQ material. It hopes to unmask the blogger in court. [MediaPost]

»  The spate of celebrity deaths and scandals this past year has benefited marketers who advertise on gossip sites, but not the publishers themselves, says Blogads CEO Henry Copeland, who represents PerezHilton. [ClickZ]

»  No can get enough of those Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet rumors—especially investors, who shot the company’s stock price to a new intraday high of $209.35 on Friday, three and half weeks after it was pulled down below $190. [Fortune] By early afternoon on Thursday, Apple’s stock was back down to $208.92, a 3.36 percent rise for the day.

»  Speaking of stock prices, AOL (NYSE: AOL) was trading at $24.14 during the afternoon before Christmas, for a rise of 0.33 percent for the day. Two weeks before, AOL’s stock debuted at around $23.15 per share.