Neowin News Feed for: News corp

Is News Corp about to shutter The Daily?

Tyler Holman — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:03:35 +0100

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is reportedly considering shutting down The Daily, its iPad & iPhone-only news magazine, because of disappointing subscription rates and massive losses. Read more...

Murdoch admits News Corp buying MySpace was a "huge mistake"

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:29:15 +0100

News Corporation's chief executive Rupert Murdoch admitted this week that the company's $580 million purchase of MySpace was a "huge mistake" and that the social networking site was mismanaged. Read more...

News Corporation gets green light for BSkyB takeover

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:18:11 +0000

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given the go ahead by the British Government for its bid to take over the media company BSkyB. The approval follows the corporations agreement to set up Sky News... Read more...

News Corp considering selling Myspace

Mike Brown — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:12:57 +0000

Myspace's recent redesign appears to have received a lukewarm reception, as parent company News Corp is already looking into selling options, according to PaidContent. In an interview, COO Chase Carey admitted that "there's been a... Read more...

The Daily launches for iPad

Mike Brown — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:57:10 +0000

The Daily, News Corp's answer to the growing number of news-reading tablet users, was unveiled today in New York. Costing a mere 14 cents a day, subscriptions can be purchased at 99 cents for a... Read more...

Apple and News Corp. set to announce The Daily on Wednesday

Byron Hinson — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:43:00 +0000

Invitations to a press event being held by both Apple and News Corp have been sent out over the past week. The event is taking place in New York on February 2 and is set... Read more...

Hulu considering to rebrand as an online cable provider

Michael Collado — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:25:54 +0000

Hulu may have reimagined television content on the Internet almost three years ago, but lately the video-on-demand website's business has not been doing as well as its owners would have liked. And now The Wallstreet... Read more...

News Corp open to MySpace sale

Matthew Jones — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:30:20 +0000

Five years after spending $580 million to buy MySpace, a News Corporation executive has admitted the company is open to selling off the social networking site. Reuters reports via The Sydney Morning Herald that a sale... Read more...

MySpace shutdown seems imminent

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:04:44 +0000

Since its launch in August 2003, MySpace has grown into a 66 million user social network. Originally the largest of the social sites on the Internet, the struggling site has been completely overshadowed by Facebook,... Read more...

News Corp blocks Hulu access for Cablevision subscribers [update]

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:00:47 +0100

News Corp and Cablevision have had a bit of a disagreement over fees recently, due to this disagreement around 3 million Cablevision subscribers have had News Corp channels, such as Fox, blacked out on their... Read more...

Times announces plans to charge Â£1 per day for website access

Tom Warren — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:06:48 +0000

News International (NI), the owner of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers, has announced plans to charge users for access to their websites from June. Users who wish to access online content from The Times and... Read more...

Hacker Testifies Against News corp

TonyLock — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:55:31 +0100

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A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky —... Read more...

Murdoch Won't Fight MS Over Yahoo

Sagittarius — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:31:07 +0000

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Rupert Murdoch said on Monday that News Corp. would not get into a fight with Microsoft over the acquisition of search engine Yahoo, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected. His statement came... Read more...

Eidos insiders confirm News Corp deal is imminent

Dice — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:36:25 +0000

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Sources at UK publisher Eidos have confirmed that the company is about to be sold to Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corporation, with the deal expected to be announced within the coming week. ... Read more...