Topic: News Corporation Ltd.

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»

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»

Nobody Wants to Pay Taxes to Save Newspapers, and Why Should They? [Updated]

The newspaper industry is almost, but not quite, running like a headless chicken in the last throes of life thanks to the digital revolution. Can it be supported by extra taxes? Should it be?READ»

Social Media Gets a Political Boost with Vote iQ, Facebook Still Laughing

Today is Super Tuesday for the Midterm primaries, which means that for the next six months the Internet will be filled with cyber equivalent of political bumph. Anyone with less than a passing interest in the art of psephology runs ...READ»

iFive: Facebook, Microsoft, Human-Computer Viruses, Green Streets, and Twitter

After a 13-month siesta, iFive has returned--so imagine just how much innovation has been going on during this mother of all power naps.1. Today we're all waiting, breath a-bated, for Facebook's changes to its privacy settings, which ...READ»

News Corp.'s Other Murdoch: How Dare the British Library Charge for Its Digital Newspaper Archive!

Please feel free to file this in the C.E.Oh-no-he-di'nt folder: News Corp.'s James Murdoch has publicly slapped plans by the British Library, one of the most venerable libraries in the world, for digitizing its newspaper archive.For ...READ»

Yahoo Buys Associated Content, Scores 380,000 Freelancers and Boatloads of Cheap Content

Yahoo just announced that they've acquired Associated Content, a startup that produces lots and lots of freelancer-contributed content on the cheap. READ»

News Corp's Murdoch Bites iTunes' Ankles

"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»

Mullen on the Move

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News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including HP, Hulu, Toyota, and Facebook.READ»

Rupert Murdoch Calls for the iPad to Kill Paper-and-Ink Newspapers

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»

3D TV Virtual Worlds

How much do you know about new “virtual worlds and 3D TV” technology developments? Maybe, you thought they were just a lot of online video game hype for kids but look deeper into today’s virtual world platforms like Second Life ...READ»

Only a Bloody Pound: U.K.'s Times Gets an Online Paywall [Updated]

The long awaited sea-change in online newsprint has begun in earnest in the U.K., as two of its most popular and well-regarded broadsheets have announced paywalls. The Times and Sunday Times online will cost you from June. They're ...READ»

Wall Street Journal to Hit iPad Screens, but It'll Cost You

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»

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»

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Crib Sheet: Prince Alwaleed--Saudi Oil Tycoon, Fox News Investor

He's a prince! He graduated summa cum laude from Menlo University in 1979! He's the Saudi Warren Buffet! He's also Fox News' fourth biggest investor--although Prince Alwaleed bin Talal claims that he's the second biggest investor in ...READ»

Carbon Accounting Software Market Experiencing Huge Period of Growth

Despite the gridlock in Washington over climate change legislation, and the world's economic downturn, 2009 was a year of growth for the emerging Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) software market. The number of corporations disclosing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) increased significantly in 2009 and Groom Energy predicts that ECA software purchases will increase 600% by 2011.READ»

MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta Steps Down

Less than a year after leaving his post as the COO of Facebook to become the CEO of a faltering MySpace, Owen Van Natta is leaving the beleaguered social network. In an official statement, News Corporation's Chairman and CEO of ...READ»

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These companies, featured on our 2008 and 2009 honor rolls, fought a dour economy with renewed creativity and bold initiatives. (Alas, not all fared ...READ»

Sacre Blue! "Avatar" Propels News Corp Deep Into the Black

Rupert Murdoch owns newspapers that are making loads of cash. Seriously. READ»

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Dear Rupert Murdoch: Here's Some Free Online Content That You Don't Own

It's okay, Mr. Murdoch. We think we finally understand why you hate Google and the Net so much--you gave it away in your rant during News Corp.'s finances: It's because you really don't get technology--or people--very much. I'm ...READ»

Patrice Green Houston - Saving our economy

Sweet Success Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB : SWTS), which has relaunched a product line made popular by Nestle’s to tap into the rapidly growing demand for convenient and nutritious beverages, filed Form 10-Q containing financial ...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»