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News Pitch: Why To Buy News Corp (Seeking Alpha)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:20:01 GMT

Steve Alexander submits: American Idol . Star Wars . The Wall Street Journal . MySpace.com . NFL NFC Football . What do all of these have in common? They are just some of the well known and valuable intangible assets controlled by media conglomerate News Corporation (NWS). News Corp is one of the largest and most diversified media conglomerates worldwide. The company's diversification...

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MySpace overtakes Yahoo in display ad views: report (Reuters)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:34:15 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has lost its lead of the U.S. market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace, new industry data shows.

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MySpace overtakes Yahoo in display ad views: report (Reuters UK)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:44:22 GMT

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Case 10 “News Corporation: entering the US pay TV industry.” (Thinking made Easy)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:49:44 GMT

Case Study Assignment Case 10 “News Corporation: entering the US pay TV industry.” (C101) in the textbook: Hill, CWL, Jones, GR & Galvin, P 2004, Strategic management an integrated approach, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld (I’ll fax it to you). Format The report is required to use the format...

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News International Merging Mobile Unit In To Digital, Commercial Groups (Moco News)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:56:59 GMT

Andrew Bagguley, the head of mobile strategy at News Corp's ( NYSE: NWS ) News International UK news publisher, is leaving next month, a further casualty of the corporate-level reorganisation ensuing from Boston Consulting Group's recent review. News Int's titles - most prominently, The Sun - had developed some attractive mobile content offerings, like 24-7 Football live score updates and QR...

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Target Corp. And Photobucket Partner For Photo-Printing Services (Pulse2)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:07 GMT

Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) and News Corporation (NYSE:NWS.A) subsidiary, Photobucket have officially partnered with each other for photo printing services. For those that have photos uploaded on Photobucket, they can go into Target stores and order prints. So far the service is available in a majority select Target stores. The Photobucket prints will cost $0.20 for [...]

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Sofia: Murdoch Sells His Bulgarian Channel bTV by End of 2008 (Guide Bulgaria)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:15:00 GMT

The Chair of Bulgaria`s Electronic Media Council Mariya Stefanova confirmed Sunday that the largest private national TV station in Bulgaria bTV would be sold by its owner - Rupert Murdoch`s News Corporation - by the end of 2008. The Media Council has be...

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Murdoch Sells His Bulgarian Channel bTV by End of 2008 (Sofia News Agency)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:15:32 GMT

The Chair of Bulgaria's Electronic Media Council Mariya Stefanova confirmed Sunday that the largest private national TV station in Bulgaria bTV would be sold by its owner - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation - by the end of 2008. The Media Council has been notified about the sale by the Managing Di...

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France Outlaws Tv For Babies (Contactmusic Ltd)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:44:10 GMT

The French government appears determined to prevent a French version of News Corp's BabyFirstTV from appearing on any cable system in the country. Saying that it intends ...

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Schadenfreude (Presto Vivace Blog)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:11:00 GMT

News Corp stock and Rupert Murdoch in the toilet ? "Media company News Corp., whose stock fell 29% in fiscal 2008, reported compensation of $27.5 million for Chairman Rupert Murdoch during the period." I guess a business model based on lying isn't working too well.

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The TH Interview: News Corp.'s Carbon Neutral Empire (Part 2) (Treehugger)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:50 GMT

We all know how green Hollywood wants to appear. We also know how ungreen the entertainment economy can truly be. In the second portion of our conversation with News Corporation’s Director of Energy Initiatives, Rachel Webber grapples with this schizophrenia as she delves deeper into how Murdoch’s media empire plans to both calculate and neutralize its own global footprint . She also serves...

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Industry Moves: Sky Promotes David Gibbs To Mobile GM; Taps Tim Hussein As Mobile Advertising Head (Moco News)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:01:16 GMT

News Corp's UK satellite pay-TV unit Sky has promoted David Gibbs to General Manager for Mobile, and has appointed ex-AOL head of mobile Tim Hussein to the newly created position of head of mobile advertising. Gibbs comes from Sky's Commercial Group where he helped develop and manage its mobile offerings, including 24-7 Football and Sky Anytime on Mobile. He will now oversee the daily operations...

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Rupert Murdoch's payout (Sox First)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:32:16 GMT

The News Corp share price has not been doing that well but that hasn't stopped Rupert Murdoch getting a $30.1 million payout , up 24 per cent from a year before. That's despite the company's share falling more than 50 per cent. Still, given that he owns 60 per cent of the company, he can pay himself whatever he damn well wants. He would say his holdings at least show that he has a long term...

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“Dirty Sexy Money” TV Show Plays Out at News Corp (10Q Detective)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:59:00 GMT

Rupert Murdoch, the visionary and commander-in-chief of News Corp. (NWS-$13.75), is in his late 70s, making succession a top issue for investors. For a time Rupert Murdoch’s sons, Lachlan and James, vied for anointing as his successor at the diversified media and entertainment titan — one envisions them wrestling around the living room floor as the Old Scion looked on. Meanwhile, Peter Chernin...

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Rupert Murdoch's pay is cut to... $27.5m (The Telegraph)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:11:24 GMT

Rupert Murdoch took a 14pc pay cut in the year to June, over which period News Corporation shares slid 29pc.

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Fox News chairman gets $4.5m bonus (FT.com)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:29:00 GMT

Roger Ailes received shares worth almost $4.5m for last October's launch of the Fox Business Network, News Corp's much-hyped bid to take on CNBC, according to a proxy filing by the media group

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Murdoch Receives Take-home Cut Its Still 275 Million (Contactmusic Ltd)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:31:15 GMT

News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch took a 14-percent cut in his take-home pay, but a financial statement indicated that the cut had nothing to do with his performance ...

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News Corp stock and Rupert Murdoch in the toilet? (News Hounds)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:22:18 GMT

Bill O'Reilly and Friends like to snidely comment on the New York Times and other competitors ' publicly-traded stock prices falling, disregarding the fact that the newspaper industry as a whole is suffering drops in circulation and ad revenue. Will he comment on report in the LATimes ? "Media company News Corp., whose stock fell 29% in fiscal 2008, reported compensation of $27.5 million for...

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Hulu Hits 105 Million Streams, Hires Ad Partner (Appscout.com)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:55:59 GMT

Most of us were a little hesitant to welcome Hulu with open arms when the site first launched, some five months back. Entering an already overcrowded field, surely the last thing the world needed was yet one more video streaming site, particular from big companies like NBC Universal and News Corp, who have the tendency to bungle these maiden steps into new technologies.

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MySpace, Music and Brands (Conversation Agent)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:51:56 GMT

Everyone has a song in them, Cartier has many and it has chosen MySpace to share the love. This is just one of the alliances with big-name brands the site is making. After the acquisition by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $580 million (2005), and the news that rival Facebook has just surpassed the site in traffic (May 2007), the social network is now calling itself a portal and planning to go...

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