As Rubert Murdoch and (a fake) Wendi Deng became Twitter's newest celebrity couple, veteran tweeters Katy Perry and Russell Brand called it quits. What's the secret to a happy marriage--on Twitter?READ»
Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could both shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch.READ»
The publisher of dead-tree newspapers and owner of climate-change skeptic Fox News says it's carbon neutral. But why cut down on CO2 emissions if you don't believe that climate change is real? READ»
British tycoon and Virgin chairman Richard Branson is launching an iPad-only magazine called Project, which will hit the iTunes store Tuesday--ahead of Rupert Murdoch's Daily.READ»
The News Corp. baron and the former veep are forming a conspiracy Voltron with a shale oil exploration company in Israel and Colorado, betting it will do serious business--and even transform Murdoch's media empire. READ»
The Daily promises a beautiful marriage between Murdoch and Jobs, but the likelihood of a lasting union is about as likely as a Page Three Girls app winning approval from the App Store. READ»
Project Alesia, one year and $30 million in the making, would have bundled online subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, but publishers weren't interested.READ»
A shark man! Cash cannons! Mexican stereotypes! A dance-off! The New York Times and Wall Street Journal could both learn a few things from Next Action Media about sexing up a dull story.READ»
This past October, Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, was purchased for $650 million, and its Web site, newsday.com, was put behind a pay wall. For just $5 a week, users could gain access to the site, but after three months on the market, how many had subscribed? Thirty-five people.READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was whisking its love away for a cruise on its private yacht, and then erecting a paywall around her so that no one could see her. Strange, that.1. The Los Angeles Times has documented what life is ...READ»
"We're in final discussions with a number of publishers, device makers, and technology companies. We will soon develop an innovative subscription model to deliver digital content to consumers wherever and whenever they want it," Murdoch said. Whatever it is, it will live or die by its payment method.READ»
Rupert Murdoch's banging his "Google is a thief!" drum again in an interview at a National Press Club event. Then he praised the iPad. Then things got really freaky. Murdoch, News King, would like the physical newspaper to die.The ...READ»
Following on from this morning's news that two of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers are to start charging, James Harding, editor of The Times, braved the Intertubes for a Q&A with his readers. Although there were no googlies ...READ»
A bastion of old-media newspaper publishing cozying up to the big bad digital publishing-business-overturning newbie Apple? Well, kinda: The Wall Street Journal has revealed its iPad subscription plans and profiled Apple's board of ...READ»
A video subscription service for smartphones is to be launched at CTIA today by Fox Mobile Group, owned by that champion of the free Internet, Rupert Murdoch. (Can I just say how amazing it is to have Peyote on your cornflakes each ...READ»
