The judge in a controversial copyright case between Bloomberg News and watch-maker Swatch has changed his mind about whether it is legal to record corporate earnings calls.

News Corp has stopped stonewalling about The Daily‘s circulation following reports from Bloomberg that the tablet tabloid had 120,000 weekly uniques and from paidContent that nearly two-thirds of those were paying subs. Publisher Greg Clayman now tells AdAge the actual number is 80,000.

For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world. Now, they seem to be setting their sights on large media companies too. A shell company in Delaware is suing Bloomberg, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co and four other news giants…

Last month, Bloomberg made it known that it was quite unhappy with where Bloomberg TV was being placed in Comcast’s TV lineup. Bloomberg, which was generally placed in the low-100s of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) lineups, wanted to move down the dial to what it considered some better digital real estate.…

Bloomberg doesn’t feel like its financial news channel is in the right kind of “neighborhood,” according to a legal complaint filed with the FCC. In fact, the company so dislikes where Comcast has placed Bloomberg TV in its channel line-up, that it’s saying Comcast is violating one of the conditions…

For the past year, Bloomberg has been working on rounding out its financial data and news content with the addition of other areas. The latest involves injecting more opinion into the mix and the company has hired former NYT op-ed editor David Shipley and James P. Rubin, most widely known…

If the words “Bloomberg” and “fantasy football” seem incongruous, the financial media company is hoping to change that impression with the release of a new iPhone app it expects to be approved next week. The company created the Bloomberg Sports division a few months ago. The app will be will…

Some eight months after announcing a partnership for a co-branded online business page, the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and Bloomberg have finally delivered. The result is a pretty standard, informative business page that seems to make good use of both partners. Some readers will probably skip right by the branding;…

Since we didn’t get early access, but WSJ did and wrote two long stories on it, we can only make it easier for you to digest those. Hence the cheat sheet: —Michael Bloomberg was keen on buying BusinessWeek, after Bloomberg News broke the story about BW hiring Evercore as its…

Courtesy the exclusive they gave to WSJ tonight. Wonder why they didn’t give it to us…hmm. Here is a teaser cover from this week’s BW.

Bloomberg.com began showing off its new look earlier today, but sometime in the next few months, the site will also be sporting a paywall around some of its content. In an interview with paidContent, Kevin Krim, the head of Bloomberg.com, offered a few more details about the next phases of…

As the print edition of Bloomberg Businessweek gets rebooted later this week, Bloomberg.com is unveiling its makeover a little earlier. Aside from replacing the dark background with a lighter one, the updated site will be sporting the Online Publishers Association pushdown ad unit, a larger display format intended to attract…

...With an earnest young editor, too polished for his own good. Except this isn’t a sketch, it is real. BusinessWeek under Bloomberg, brilliantly dubbed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, is relaunching the magazine on Apr 23rd, and it has released a preview as a series of short videos from its new-ish editor-in-chief Josh…

Bloomberg has created a new post to oversee its worldwide mobile strategy and has hired Oke Okaro from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) for the role. Okaro was most recently VP of mobile for ESPN and he had been at the Disney sports content unit for roughly six years. As Bloomberg’s global…

The San Francisco Chronicle is the latest newspaper to team with the Bloomberg News Service and its 50-person Bay Area bureau for business coverage in print and online. This Sunday, the Chronicle launches an expanded business section called the “Business Report” with regional coverage and financial data from the two…

About 25 staffers were let go from Bloomberg BusinessWeek as the title prepares for its major redesign late next month. Among the 25 who were cut were senior reporters Tom Lowry and Michelle Conlin, FishbowlNY reported. The layoffs were attributed to “redundancies,” a Bloomberg rep told Mediaweek. Separate from the…

Bloomberg, which is on a mandate to move into various verticals beyond its core, has now acquired Fairfax, VA-based government data publishers Eagle Eye Publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this is Bloomberg’s third acquisition in the last few months, after BusinessWeek (for its consumer push) and…

As a former executive at public companies NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and *Sony* BMG, Bloomberg’s Andy Lack appreciates the virtues of being at a private company. Speaking at the SIIA Industry Summit, Lack, the CEO of Bloomberg’s multimedia group, argued that the benefits of being private will have distinct benefits…

Paul Bascobert is the new president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, succeeding Keth Fox, who is staying at McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP). Bloomberg execs have high hopes for Bascobert, who has been the CMO for the Consumer Medis Group at Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and, the announcement claims, “is credited with helping the…