Updated: Will The Real Wendi Deng Murdoch Please Stand Up?
When the CEO of News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch, joined Twitter a few days ago as an official, verified account, endorsed even… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: The Age Of Ubiquity (For Some)
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This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
News Corp. To Give Sunday Times The Free Treatment For Christmas This Year
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Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective i… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
Is Piers Morgan Becoming Baggage For CNN?
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If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview… Read more »
News Of The World Publisher Settles Seven Phone-Hacking Claims
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News International said it had settled seven privacy claims against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the now-defunct News of the Worl… Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
Al Jazeera, Apple Could Drive Up Sky Sports' Soccer Costs
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Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more »
Murdoch's BlackBerry Mail Trail: He Was Warned Of Phone Hacking
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James Murdoch has suddenly found an e-mail which alerted him to phone hacking at News International – despite having previously blamed two o… Read more »
BSkyB 'Perplexed' By On-Demand Movie Judgement
“We confess ourselves slightly perplexed,” BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) finance chief Andrew Griffith told Wall Street investors, when asked about the… Read more »
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price 'Cartel'
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After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust invest… Read more »
BSkyB Could Be Forced To Host On-Demand Movie Rivals
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BSkyB’s set-top boxes may have to offer services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Lovefilm and Blinkbox alongside its own Sky Movies, under new pr… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of publishers releasing apps exclusively for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
Industry Moves: Sony Music's Hesse, Sky's Jonesco, Capgemini, RBI, O2
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– Bertelsmann: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music’s global digital head Thomas Hesse is leaving to join Bertelsmann in February, tasked with its digita… Read more »
BSkyB Retains James Murdoch As Chair
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James Murdoch has been re-elected chairman of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) at the pay-TV and telco company’s annual general meeting, with 81.24 percent… Read more »
News Of The World Readers 'Vanish' As They Stop Reading Newspapers
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The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the cl… Read more »
Wales' Ex First Minister Morgan Claims To Be NOTW Phone Hacking Victim
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The former First Minister of Wales says he and his politician wife have been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police because her phone was ha… Read more »
BSkyB Names New Independent Directors Ahead Of AGM
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is to appoint Matthieu Pigasse, controlling shareholder of Le Monde and the French edition of Huffington Post, and Aberdee… Read more »
Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Ex-Myspace CEO Mike Jones' New Company Is Part VC Firm, Part Digital Studio
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science… Read more »
Miramax Is The Latest To Ink A Deal With Netflix For UK Launch
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video comp… Read more »
BSkyB Board's Letter Defending James Murdoch – The Full Text
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) deputy chairman Nick Ferguson’s letter to investors explaining why James Murdoch should remain chairman of the broadcaster… Read more »
'I Am Not Incompetent' – James Murdoch Defends Himself
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James Murdoch’s very ability as an executive was effectively put on trial Thursday, as UK MPs investigating the phone “hacking” scandal queu… Read more »
James Murdoch Insists Ex Editor And Lawyer Kept Full Horror From Him
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James Murdoch said a trio of former News International executives had not briefed him fully enough, during his second questioning by MPs on… Read more »
His Biggest Week Yet?: James Murdoch In Parliament On Thursday
The stakes are getting higher for News Corp.’s international CEO, as the phone “hacking” scandal resurfaces this week… Read more »
News Of The World Hired Investigators To Snoop On Hacking Victims' Lawyers
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The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking vi… Read more »
Netflix And MGM Ink Exclusive Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a de… Read more »
News Corp.: Net Income Down On $91 Million In Hacking, BSkyB Charges
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The aftershocks of the phone-hacking scandal that erupted at News International in the UK over the summer are still being felt by its parent… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers’ Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent
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Digital editions of the top 25 newspapers rose 63 percent to 2,169,843 for the six months ending in September, according to Audit Bureau of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-01-11
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» With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media (paidContent)
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HarperCollins’ Acquisition Of Thomas Nelson Is An Investment In Digital
HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson–publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real–for $200 million in a de… Read more »
CW Cuts Another Streaming Deal: Current Season Shows To Hulu, Hulu Plus
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Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1… Read more »
WSJ To Run E-Book Bestseller Lists Powered By Nielsen BookScan
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With e-books now making up about 20 percent of sales for many big publishers, it’s essential for bestseller lists to include them in order t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
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» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-26-11
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» The Challenges That Lie Ahead For Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (paidContent)
» Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web… Read more »
Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in… Read more »
Hinton Backs James Murdoch In Parliament Ahead Of November 10 Appearance
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After weeks in which some News Corp investors had started to call for James Murdoch’s head, former Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) CEO and News Intern… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m G… Read more »
Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
News Corp.’s The Times and NYTCo’s The New York Times each introduced online charges in summer 2010 and March 2011 respectively. So how are… Read more »
Murdoch Faces Fire At Shareholders Meeting With Contrition And Amusement
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Rupert Murdoch received the grilling he had expected at News Corp.’s shareholders meeting and was more than prepared in remarks that offered… Read more »
