During its quarterly earnings call, News Corp. has made it clear that it is done with MySpace and that the troubled social network turned media hub will find a better home somewhere else. This is not the first time the company has made indications that MySpace is for sale, but it's the most formal announcement t... |
3 February 2011
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During a special event in New York yesterday, Apple’s Vice President of Internet services, Eddy Cue and News Corp.’s CEO, Rupert Murdoch introduced “The Daily,” the first digital newspaper for the iPad.
“Introducing The Daily – the first digital news publication with original co... |
3 February 2011
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As previously reported by Softpedia, The Daily electronic newspaper for iPad is scheduled to make its debut today, at a special launch event in New York, hosted by News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch and Apple’s Eddy Cue. The Telegraph reports that, despite previous plans to have Apple’s CEO join Murdoch o... |
2 February 2011
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Apple and News Corp have teamed up to issue invitations to select members of the media, enticing them to attend a special event next week (Wednesday) to celebrate the launch of a digital newspaper designed specifically for the iPad - The Daily.
"News Corporation's Chairman & CEO Rupert Murdoch invites you to ... |
28 January 2011
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News Corp. has now released the first subscriber numbers for its two major British newspapers it has put behind a paywall online. The Times and The Sunday Times of London managed to convince 105,000 people to pay for their content at one during the three months the paywall has been instituted. While the media corpora... |
2 November 2010
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All the big console manufacturers have taken great strides in making their home gaming devices more interesting to wider categories of players, beyond hardcore gamers. Consoles can now play movies, act as social spaces and it seems that, soon, Microsoft might be the first to produce and deliver a television channel e... |
23 April 2010
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Old media giants have been clamoring on about how search engines, Google being the biggest target, have been making money for years on the backs of the hard-working news agencies and how they're not going to stand for it any longer. Of course, there's a great reply to this, one that Google itself made on nu... |
9 November 2009
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It's common knowledge that MySpace has seen better days, as the once-biggest social network in the world loses even more traffic and users. But at least it had something to fall back on, a $900-million deal with Google running until mid-2010, which would guarantee at least part of its profits. But this isn'... |
5 November 2009
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Monday came with an announcement from CNBC and "The New York Times" that they would start sharing business, technology and financial news and video. This comes as a response to the surge of competition coming from the News Corp, which has recently purchased Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of "The Wall Street Journal",... |
8 January 2008
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"Welcome to the Weather Channel. All weather, all day" (yawn). That's the quote I would use to best describe my feelings when I've heard of the deal that is about to go down. No way this could be worth three times more than YouTube! No, abso-frickin'-lutely not! Checking the story a little deeper, I fo... |
3 January 2008
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