Wednesday, September 26, 2012

News corp

  • Ex-News Corp. UK CEO Faces Sept. 2013 Hacking Trial

    Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive officer of News Corp. (NWSA)'s British unit, and 13 other people will face the first criminal trial stemming from the company's tabloid phone-hacking scandal in September 2013.

    www.businessweek.com

  • News Corp Backs Down On Anti-Google Stance, Plans Searchable Article ...

    Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is planning once again to let stories from its paywalled UK newspaper The Times get indexed by the search giant Google.

    techcrunch.com

  • News Corp. Publications To Unblock Search Engines

    The whole thing shows that despite News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch's classic argument about Google being a "thief" or "pirate," search engines clearly provide a valuable resource to publishers.

    www.webpronews.com

  • News Corp gets CCI nod for STAR buying out ESPN in joint venture

    In June, ESPN, owned by The Walt Disney Company, and STAR, owned by News Corp, had called off their joint venture (JV), 16 years after it was formed.

    www.business-standard.com

  • News Corp. Climate Change Coverage Is Misleading, Analysis Claims

    93 percent of Fox News' and 80 percent of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages' climate coverage is inaccurate and misleading according to an analysis titled "Is News Corp. Failing Science," from The Union of Concerned Scientists. The report examined ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • News Corp. Seeks to Limit Damages in Phone-Hacking Trial

    News Corp., controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has paid out more than $315 million for legal fees, civil court settlements, and the cost of shutting the News of the World as a result of the phone-hacking scandal.

    www.businessweek.com

  • DreamWorks Animation and News Corp.: Drama Behind the Scenes of the Fox ...

    But sources say there was more behind-the-scenes drama in the making of the pact than either side has chosen to reveal. Those with knowledge of the situation say Fox parent News Corp. discussed a potential purchase of DWA at a price that would have ...

    www.hollywoodreporter.com

  • MySpace is ready for a big comeback, says Justin Timberlake

    When media titan News Corp. first purchased MySpace in July, 2005, for $580 million, the thought of selling it just six years later for $35 million was unthinkable.

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Study Shows News Corp Misleads on Climate Change

    In 2007, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch said, "I think that when people see that 99 percent of scientists agree about the serious extend of global warming, it's going to become a fact of life," and issued a 2011 memo announcing that News Corp had met its ...

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  • Cable, Burned by News Corp. Sting, Vows Silence on BAE-EADS

    U.K. Business Secretary Vince Cable, who came close to losing his job in 2010 after he was secretly recorded discussing News Corp. (NWSA)'s bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), pledged not to offer any view on the proposed merger between ...

    www.businessweek.com

  • Detective charged in News Corp scandal

    LONDON: News Corp's tabloid bribery scandal in Britain may lead to its first criminal case after prosecutors said a London detective should be charged with offering to sell information to News of the World.

    www.smh.com.au

  • News Corp. keeps BSkyB license. AEG guessing game going full steam.

    Daily Dose: While everyone tries to guess who might buy AEG (see below), here are some companies we can rule out: News Corp., CBS and Time Warner Cable. Here's some fun trivia for you. News Corp. once owned a piece of Staples Center but sold it long ...

    www.latimes.com

  • James Murdoch Gets Almost 90000 Pounds as BSkyB Director

    James Murdoch once ran BSkyB and built it into one of News Corp. (NWSA)'s most profitable businesses. He stepped down as chairman amid a scandal at News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit which involved journalists illegally listening to voice mail messages ...

    www.bloomberg.com

  • Murdoch outfoxed by Independence Party

    For the past two years, the conservative News Corp. billionaire and staunch supporter of Israel has been enrolled in the New York Independence Party, whose New York City faction has been accused of anti-Semitism.

    www.crainsnewyork.com

  • News Corp Likes Sports, But Quiet About Possible Net

    News Corp's Chase Carey declined to say whether or not Fox would launch a national sports network, but made it clear that the company likes sports.

    www.cablefax.com

  • RadioShack Corp (RSS) Chief Departing after Deal with Board – RSH, BBY ...

    Chief Executive James F. Gooch of RadioShack Corp. (NYSE:RSH) has decided to leave the consumer-electronics retailer following a mutual deal with the firm's board.

    estocksdaily.com

  • Nomura Raises Price Target on News Corp (NWSA)

    News Corp logo Investment analysts at Nomura boosted their target price on shares of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) to $28.00 in a note issued to investors on Tuesday.

    www.dailypolitical.com

  • Final Glance: Media companies

    Comcast Corp. fell $.58 or 1.6 percent, to $35.86. Walt Disney Co. fell $.38 or .7 percent, to $52.54. Gannett fell $.24 or 1.3 percent, to $18.15.

    www.cbsnews.com

  • Tom who? News Corp.'s Chase Carey praises movie studio management

    News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey had nothing but nice things to say about the media giant's movie unit just days after ousting Tom Rothman from his position as co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment.

    www.latimes.com

  • Why hasn't News Corp. been charged with foreign corrupt practices?

    NEW YORK -- So how do you get a big promotion at News Corp.? Turns out the best way is to ignore the fact that the news-gathering operation is running one of the biggest criminal enterprises ever to be uncovered at a major corporation -- illegal ...

    www.journalgazette.net

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