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Bloomberg, Saudi Prince To Launch News Channel

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»

How The Murdoch Email And Website Hacks Could Happen To You

Rupert Murdoch's digital properties were aggressively penetrated this week, with a website hacking and a treasure trove of corporate emails stolen. Here's how this sort of catastrophe could hit your company, and what you can do to stop it. READ»

Climate Change-Denying News Corp. Crows About Its Carbon Neutrality

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»

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Yahoo's New Digital Tablet Newsstand Takes on Flipboard, Google, Apple

With its new digital newsstand, Yahoo takes on not only Google and Yahoo, but personalized, social magazine Flipboard.READ»

Apple and News Corp's "The Daily" Hits the iPad for $0.99 Weekly, $40 Yearly [Video]

It's here, the first dedicated newspaper for the tablet era: The Daily, on iPad. Is it the savior of news publishing? READ»

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iFive: Microsoft's Finances, U.S. Ends India Embargo, Facebook's Groupon, Twitter's Ads Expand, Daily iPad Newspaper App

Enjoyed the State of the Union address? Great--now enjoy our early State of the Tech World news summary: READ»

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Ongo, NYT-Backed Digital News Startup, Launches Today

The venture is headed up by Alex Kazim, former CEO of Skype. With an iPad app in the offing, does this represent a threat to Murdoch's Daily?READ»

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iFive: Yelp Gets Coupons, Badges Earn Investment, News Corp. Buys Education Firm, 3-D TV Drama, Sony's Reader Expands

Tuesday November 23rd is underway folks, and there's already a bunch of tech and innovation news to get into your head before the day really starts:READ»

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Murdoch Takes on Ticketmaster With "Foxtix"

The billionaire media magnate launches a Ticketmaster competitor in Australia. Will it soon challenge the ticket giant in the U.S. too?READ»

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iFive: Google's Growth, AOL and News Corp, WikiLeaks Cash Woes, Patent Trolling, Spotify to Go Virgin

Friday's rolled around again, and while you were dreaming, other people were ending their work week. Here's the early tech news that's resulted: READ»

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Next On iTunes: 99-Cent TV Episode Rentals?

Apple is reportedly preparing to rent you TV episodes for the same price as a music single. READ»

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Rupert Murdoch Rumored to Be Launching Tablet-Targeted News Service

Tablets, apparently, are the new tabloids.READ»

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MySpace Co-President Departs Just Months After Taking Over

MySpace death spiral alert: Co-president Jason Hirschhorn has announced his departure from the troubled social network.READ»

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iFive: BP's $34 Billion Ticket, News Corp. Bids for BSkyB, North Korea vs. Brazil, Kindle Gets Twitter, Polygraphs Are Fun!

What did you dream about while you were sleeping last night? Lie detectors? Kim Jong Il? Oil Slicks? Well, innovation was living the dream.1. The Senate is demanding that BP pay $34 billion in fines for the Gulf oil spill. Ahead of ...READ»

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Why Bitbop, Fox's Mobile Video Subscription Service, Is No Hulu

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»

Major Print Publishers Gang Up to Pre-Empt Apple, Already Make Mistakes

Well, it's been recently speculated, and now it's true: Five big names in ink-and-paper magazine and newspaper publishing have ganged up in a joint venture. It's aim, despite grandiose PR? Outsmart Apple, and side-step Amazon. The ...READ»

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Google Limits Free Access to Google News ... Kind Of

Ever thought Google News, with its endless stream of no-cost content, was too good to be true? Well, so did Rupert Murdoch, who has repeatedly threatened to pull News Corp.'s Web sites--most notably, The Wall Street Journal and ...READ»

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Hara Scores Big With News Corp Energy Management Deal

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 ...READ»

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Wall Street Journal Charges $2 for iPhone Readers

The Wall Street Journal is set to begin charging $2 per week for iPhone readers, reports Paid Content. Rupert Murdoch said that other News Corp. properties may begin using a similar model, in which Fox shows would no longer be free on ...READ»

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More De-friending at MySpace: 300 International Staff to Be Cut

The axe is falling yet again on MySpace, this time on the social networking site's overseas offices. The company announced today it intends to cut 300 workers, or two-thirds of its international employees, from its foreign ...READ»