News International Is Launching Mobile Sports and Entertainment Service
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe… Read more »
More Problems For James Murdoch: New Details Emerge In NOTW Letters
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Lawyers for Gordon Taylor said he wanted to be “vindicated or made rich” in negotiations over his controversial £700,000 ($1,121,341.40) ph… Read more »
Updated: James Murdoch Sticks To His Guns, Repudiates Execs’ Testimony
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James Murdoch is now in public disagreement with two of his former top dogs, who each told parliament that he was aware that phone hacking w… Read more »
Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is fi… Read more »
News International To Sell Wapping HQ
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News International, publisher of the Sun and the Times, is to sell Wapping, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.
The move wa… Read more »
Murdoch Shakes Up News Corp. Board (But Not The Way You Might Think)
The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) board will look a little different after the company’s Oct. 21 annual shareholders meeting but, so far, not when… Read more »
Sky News’ £4.99 iPad Fee Aims To Drive Satellite Subscriptions
Sky News, which had said it would introduce charges when it launched its iPad app back in March, has confirmed the price at £4.99 per month… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
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MobiTV Files For $75 Million IPO To Fund Its Growth [Video]
Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internation… Read more »
Hulu Japan Launches With Movies, TV From CBS, Sony, Fox & More But No Ads
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Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. Fo… Read more »
NY Official Cites Hacking In Rejection Of News Corp. Education Contract
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Losing a $27 million contract won’t hit the News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) bottom line but the New York state comptroller’s rejection of a contract… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mail Online, MySpace’s New Marketer, Massive
Some latest executive comings and goings from digital companies that begin with “M”… Read more »
Letters Show Rivals Lobbying UK Government Against BSkyB Acquisition
The government has published a tranche of documents relating to the deal that never was – News Corporation’s aborted £8bn bid to take ful… Read more »
Analyst: Netflix, Lovefilm May Not Get A UK Window Until 2014
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Sky Movies’ stranglehold on UK subscription on-demand rights for movies may not be broken by competition authorities until 2014, according t… Read more »
Fox Mobile Vet Stalbow Joins Rovio As GM, North America
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read more »
WSJ Ups Europe Online Editor McIntosh, Adds More Video
WSJ.com Europe’s online editor Neil McIntosh has been appointed deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) across print and digita… Read more »
Rival Papers May Not Take NOTW’s Advertising Until October
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Sunday tabloid publishers that have added almost 2m extra copy sales following the News of the World’s demise may have to wait until October… Read more »
Phone Hacking: Met Police Detective Arrested For Leaking Inquiry Details
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A police detective has been arrested on suspicion of leaking details about Scotland Yard’s phone-hacking investigation. The man has not been… Read more »
BSkyB Told To Weaken Stranglehold On Hollywood Movies
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been ordered to weaken its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV after an investigation by the Competition Commiss… Read more »
Phone Hacking: News Of The World’s Hollywood Reporter Arrested
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James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone… Read more »
Court Rejects Freelancer Settlement: Still No Payment From Tasini Court Win
Jonathan Tasini was a hero to many writers when he won his battle to get additional payments from publishers like The New York Times who had… Read more »
Hacking: James Murdoch Replies To Parliament; Yes, No, Maybe
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It looks increasingly likely that James Murdoch will make a return trip to Westminster to testify before the House of Commons Select Committ… Read more »
Hacking: Committee Releases Potentially Devastating NoTW Correspondence
The House of Commons Select Committee investigating widespread hacking at News of the World and a host of potential ripple effects, includin… Read more »
Man Who Threw Pie At Murdoch Is Now Blogging From Prison
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When Jonathan May-Bowles – a.k.a. activist-comedian Jonnie Marbles – tipped a foam-pie over Rupert Murdoch, oh how we scorned him. “He’s… Read more »
Red Herring Of The Day: Social Media Are Like A Train Station
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-11-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock (paidContent)
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What The Media Was Tweeting During News Corp’s Earnings Call
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Some in the media expected the first News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) earnings call after July’s explosive hacking scandal — and the closure of “News… Read more »
News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact, Seeks BSkyB Alternatives
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News Corp will pursue alternative acquisitions to BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), buy back more shares and raise investors’ dividends – but will apparent… Read more »
Murdoch Tells Wall Street: Chase Carey And I Run News Corp As A Team
“The board and I believe I should continue in my current role as chairman and CEO,” Rupert Murdoch said, as he announced News Corp.’s Q4 201… Read more »
News Corp Says It Lost $254 Million On MySpace
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News Corp lost $254 million on MySpace, the company said as it reported revenue that beat analysts’ expectations.
The loss pushed News Corp… Read more »
BSkyB, BBC Talking Over VOD TV Solution
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Sky and the BBC are still discussing ways to place the broadcaster’s catch-up TV service on the platform operator’s set-top box, despite app… Read more »
The Wages Of Spam: ‘Spam King’ Who Hit Facebook, MySpace May Go To Jail
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A famed spammer’s long career in the business looks like it’s coming to a close, and could end with a prison sentence. Sanford Wallace-long… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-03-11
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» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
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Hackgate: Ex-NOTW Managing Editor Arrested
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Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been has been arrested by poli… Read more »
Sun Website Users’ Personal Details Hacked
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News International has emailed thousands of people to warn them that one or more hackers have copied personal details of thousands of people… Read more »
News International Ordered Mass Deletion Of E-Mails Nine Times
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Senior MPs want to question further one of News International’s technology suppliers, after the firm responsible for overseeing its day-to-d… Read more »
BSkyB CEO: The Idea We’re Not Fit Or Proper Is Laughable
After presenting a strong set of results to investment analysts, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Jeremy Darroch faced a difficult final question from… Read more »
Booming BSkyB Sweetens Shareholders, Sees 800k VOD Users
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is trying to keep investors happy, even without a big exit to News Corp.
2010/11 earnings per share jumped 30 percent to… Read more »
Hackgate Latest: Post-Murdoch Planning, Sarah Payne And More…
The latest developments in News International’s voicemail tapping saga and the fall-out for News Corp… Read more »
