Tag: NEWSCORP

Earlier today, the world finally got its first peak at 'The Daily,' the news publication created explicitly for the iPad by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's brainchild is designed to leverage the multimedia capabilities of the tablet in order to create an interactive and immersive digital magazine for getting your daily dose of information. Important daily news, sports, celebrity gossip and even app ...

The story of MySpace appears to be racing toward its inevitable conclusion. The site more or less exited the social network business in November to become what the AP has called an "entertainment site." Now comes news that 47-percent of the staff is getting a post-holiday reward in the form of a pink slip. A total of 500 employees worldwide are being laid off, an action that follows a 30-percent ...

The lengthy standoff between News Corp. and Cablevision has finally come to a close -- and just in time for the World Series. On Saturday night, the Fox network suddenly returned to some three million living rooms serviced by Cablevision, effectively ending a blackout that had begun on October 16th. The dispute had essentially boiled down to money; News Corp. wanted Cablevision to pay higher ...

The drama between FOX, its parent company News Corp and Cablevision continues to drag on. Cablevision's iO Digital Cable customers have been deprived of FOX programing for about two weeks, but it seems that people have, so far, survived without Glenn Beck and 'The Simpsons.' But, now, the standoff over broadcasting fees is encroaching on the World Series, and consumers simply won't stand for that. ...

Remember that MySpace makeover that was in the works over the summer? Well, it's finally arrived, and, as expected, the new MySpace focuses more heavily on music and entertainment -- the bread and butter, apparently, of the once-mighty social network. Taking its cue from Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, MySpace's home page will now feature a steady stream of tidbits about musicians, movies ...

According to an investigation conducted by the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and some of its applications have been leaking user data to third-party advertisers, just months after the social network pledged to change its data-sharing ways. Advertisers reportedly obtained user information via advertisements placed on the site. Each clicked ad gave companies access to that user's MySpace ID, the ...

MySpace is a digital Detroit. What once was a gleaming social networking metropolis, demonstrating how the Web could connect us all, is now an Internet ghetto and the butt of countless jokes. But its owner, News Corp., is hoping to leverage its seemingly bottomless coffers and other successful properties to resurrect the once-king of the social networks. Last year, the company hosted auditions ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... 'Halo: Reach' is shaping up to be another mammoth Microsoft title, with yesterday's launch pulling in over $200 million -- $30 million more than the first day of 'Halo 3.' [From: TechFlash] Billboard.biz reports Google is preparing a new music service that will offer both digital downloads and a $25-a-year, cloud-based streaming feature ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple and Fox's News Corp. are reportedly engaged in "advanced talks" about implementing a $0.99 iTunes TV show rental program, with CBS and Disney purportedly interested, as well. [From: Engadget] After a year of development, Yahoo! and Microsoft have finally completed Yahoo!'s Bing-powered Web, video and image "mega search." ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Netflix has already bolstered its streaming catalog with the premium network Starz Play service, and a new deal with Relativity Media, which should continue to pressure movie channels like HBO and Showtime, now gives Netflix broadcasting rights to a growing library of recently released content. The first Relativity titles to ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Echoing what everyone on the Web has known for three years, Rupert Murdoch has reportedly admitted that his News Corp. organization "made some mistakes" with MySpace. (Ya think?) He also proclaimed that the "iPad will lead a revolution." He was, of course, only talking about a monetary revolution, saying, "Unlike Kindle, we keep ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... When considering schisms and rivalries, the fractured relationships between cats and dogs, Israelis and Palestinians, Yankees and Sox fans and PC and Mac owners seem irreparable. But, Justin Long of the 'Get a Mac' ads told the AV Club recently that the long-running campaign may soon come to a close, and that he is disheartened ...

Much like the cranky little guy who takes his basketball and storms home, Rupert Murdoch wants any and all stories published by his media outlets to be removed from the index of search engines. According to the Guardian, Murdoch recently told the Australian press (video after the break) that stories from News Corp. outlets (e.g., The Wall Street Journal, the Sun) would be pulled from sites like ...

We've told you about people getting fired via Facebook and via text messages, but what if you learned about your termination by reading a news alert sent to your e-mail? Well, to no surprise, that's how Fox News operates. According to Think Progress, analyst Marc Lamont Hill first learned he'd been axed when he received a Google Alert about the story October 16th on his cell phone. The ...

It's been said that nothing in this world is free. But with Hulu, the Web site that lets us watch our favorite movies and TV shows free-of-charge, we thought we just might have found an exception to the rule -- a cyber-garden of entertainment-Eden, if you will. Now it seems some money-hungry suits might not be able to resist temptation, and could ruin this entertainment paradise for all of us. ...