Times of India (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
News Corp, Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp, Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, home of the James Bond movies, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
News Corp site settles row with Merlin agency whose clients include Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend MySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking site's music service. MySpace Music launched in the US last year, recently...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | yesterday
Public figures of all kinds are aflutter after Oprah Winfrey's dramatic announcement that she's switching to cable. CNN did the thing where someone hands an urgent piece of paper to the anchor, the Daily Beast seems to have created a special "Life After Oprah" section, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is already blaming the media. (Felix Gillette has the more sober view.) Less dramatically,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impact and energy use. More on Climate Change
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Earlier this week we designated Hara as one of our 10 green startups to watch, and now the company has hit it big with a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The environmental and energy management software startup was chosen by the $30 billion media company to assist in its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2010. Hara's software tracks use of resources like electricity, gas, chemicals, and...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Image via Writing Company It's hared to get a read on Fox's parent company, News Corp., to say the least. Owned by the infamous Rupert Murdoch, it oversees the largest contingent of climate change-denying publications in existence. But one day, Murdoch himself took an interest in fighting climate change , and announced a plan to make his company carbon neutral by 2010 . Then, he went to bat to defend...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Broadcasting and entertainment is the future for News Corporation with newspapers playing a much smaller role according to James Murdoch the company's head of Europe and Asia.
Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My chin fell to the floor this morning as I read a BBC article quoting Twitter co-CEO Biz Stone advising Rupert Murdoch to be more open. This got me to think about where Twitter is and where they're going and how similar it is to where Murdoch's newspapers are. In a newspaper, reporters get the prime space with the big headlines, and the readers are placed in a corner, Letters to the Editor. Or represented...
USVO Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Just in case you haven’t noticed, today USVO was able to announce its extension and expansion of ties to one of the major distribution companies. It the one whose name rhymes with ‘box’. Turns out, and it is totally understandable if you haven’t noticed this either, that this company rarely makes what are called ‘vendor’ [...]
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Keith Olbermann rips News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch for denying that he had accused President Obama of making racist comments: Unfortunately for Murdoch, he did accuse Pres. Obama of making racist comments, and Keith plays the video. It’s bad enough that Rupert Murdoch would have ever back Glenn Beck’s absurd allegation that Barack Obama is a racist; the fact that he doesn’t...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eighty advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Glenn Beck's Fox News program since he called President Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seated hatred of white people." Here are his November 20 sponsors, in the order they appeared: Goldline International, Inc. Lifestyle Lift Nuance Communications (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) Sony Music Entertainment (Susan Boyle, "I...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV ( NYSE: DTV ) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing . His base salary is $1.5 million a year with up to 200 percent bonus based on meeting performance goals. Another $25 million is a three-year grant: half in stock options, half as performance restricted stock...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
News organizations should be “radically open” if they wish to generate Internet revenue, according to Twitter founder Biz Stone.I would "love to see what happens" if News Corp.
TechRadar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Co-owner of Twitter, Biz Stone, has spoken about Rupert Murdoch's pay-wall plans and believes the owner of News Corp's ideas would "fail fast". Discussing the matter at an event in London, Stone likened Murdoch's radical plans to turn the Sun and the Times websites into subscription-based models to when the car took over from horse, saying: "I am sure that during the transition from...
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