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Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N) on Saturday dropped its $580 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, just days after Murdoch said a deal was imminent, leaving cable television operator Cablevision as the likely winner of the Long Island daily.

Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NWS) pulled his $580 million bid for large Long Island paper "Newsday" currently owned by The Tribune Company. Cablevision (CVC),... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

News Corp. drops Newsday bid: report By Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch Last Update: 1:15 PM ET May 10, 2008 News Corp. has pulled its bid for Newsday, according to a company spokesman quoted in a Wall Street Journal report Saturday. The move makes Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) the likely victor of the auction for the Long Island daily, the report said. News Corp. [...]

News Corp/Google Eyeing blinkx?Is blinkx looking to sell? Speculation that News Corp., Google, and others have their sights on the video search engine--traded on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker BLNX--sent shares skyrocketing 26% May 09 to $31.50 per-share. The market cap... Link - Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:51 GMT - Feed (1 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe DealMeRSS.com - Great Deals Delivered Every Day

A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky -- who said his first payment was $20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada -- testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit

News Corp, the media conglomerate that’s parent to a number of New and Old Media properties including the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and Fox News Channel, may be subject to a stunning billion dollar civil judgement against them soon, based on the testimony of a hacker described by the Dish Network’s attorney Chad Hagan as [...]

La batalla de las empresas líder en Internet ha renovado estrategias y reclutado más contendientes. Yahoo! mostró los ases bajo la manga contra los esfuerzos de Microsoft al comunicar una posible fusión con AOL. Adicionalmente, mencionaron que realizarían una prueba de dos semanas con anuncios de Google Adsense en un 3% de los resultados de búsqueda de su portal.

The latest twist to the infamous Microsoft bid to takeover Yahoo! is that Yahoo! is now caught in the cross-hairs of two warring camps of tech giants and their allies.On the one hand, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is believed to be considering joining Microsoft in its bid for Yahoo! -- which means Internet giant Google may soon have a formidable rival in the form of News Corp's popular social networking Web site, MySpace. Whereas on the other hand, Yahoo! is believed to be closing in on a deal with Time Warner's AOL unit -- another big contender. To top it all, just yesterday, Yahoo! announced plans to test Google search ads alongside its Web Search services.At this stage, the specifics of how -- if at all -- a deal between Microsoft and News Corp would play out, are not known. On the side th

News Corp and AOL join in Microsoft-Yahoo fray  - SAN FRANCISCO   SAN FRANCISCO - YAHOO, which was widely believed to be running out of alternatives to accepting Microsoft’s takeover offer, has become a target of two warring camps of technology giants and their media allies, sources said. News Corp is considering joining Microsoft in a bid for [...]

Various press reports indicate that Time Warner (TWX) may be close to combining its AOL unit with Yahoo! (YHOO). At the same time, Microsoft (MSFT) is planning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Murdoch, Microsoft Consider Joint Bid; Google Ad PactBy MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, KEVIN J. DELANEY and MERISSA MARRApril 10, Wall Street JournalYahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move aimed at thwarting Microsoft Corp.'s effort to acquire Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.But Microsoft is recrafting its assault plan by talking with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, about mounting a joint bid for Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft and News Corp. have yet to reach an agreement on joining forces but one person apprised of the plan described the discussions as serious. Such a deal would combine three of the biggest Internet properties: News Corp.'s MySpace, M

Today, The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft is said to be talking with News Corp about a joint bid for Yahoo!  This combo would combine Yahoo, MSN and MySpace and create a HUGE Internet venture that would change a lot on the Internet.  Click the following link to read the New York Times [...]

News Corp (NWS) is likely to miss revenue targets at its internet division, Fox Interactive. According to TechCruch, the company may be short as much as $100... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Google, Yahoo!, and News Corp., parent of the web’s largest social network MySpace, announced today that they had teamed up to form the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation. The foundation has the stated goal “to ensure the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property

Google, Yahoo!, News Corp. Team Up on OpenSocial Google, Yahoo!, and News Corp., parent of the web’s largest social network MySpace, announced today that they had teamed up to form the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation. The foundation has the stated goal “to ensure the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property.” According [...]

The seemingly never-ending story of the bid over Yahoo! that Microsoft so generously made has seen another chapter come to a close, and by the looks of it, it’s among the last chapters in the book. After exploring different alternatives that would benefit shareholders more than the MS alternative, which Jerry Yang is completely poised on refusing, given a lifeline, one of the two possible

News Corp. Won't Fight Microsoft For Yahoo!Yahoo! Inc.'s (YHOO) alternatives in trying to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) $42 billion takeover bid, which have always been limited, just became even slimmer. News Corp. (NWS) head Rupert Murdoch told investors at the Bear Stearns media conference on Monday that the media giant won't "get into a fight" with Microsoft for Yahoo!. Link - Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:17:06 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Science

Everyone seems to be going crazy over this big news about Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo which to some of us is old news. Its a well known fact that Microsoft have been chasing Yahoo for the last 18 months and waited till financial report time to make a swoop. Since the news was made public [...]

TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp's (NWS) MySpace will join the new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Do you Hulu? Well, you might just be the only one. Hulu is the new, still closed-to-the-public video service from NBC and the Fox network’s parent company. Originally mooted as a corporate-friendly alternative to Youtube’s freewheeling territory, recent events have helped position the site as a competitor to the iTunes Store, Cable On-Demand Service, and even a floorwax/dessert topping. Though the parent companies involved clai that their service will immediately start to steal eyeballs from its more seasoned competition, it remains to be seen what they have to offer that, you know, everyone else doesn’t already deliver. A private beta of the service launched this morning, though they haven’t sent me an invite yet (I registered in August). But check out this screenshot from the home page, I mean where else are you going to go to check out reruns of “Pretender” or “Rob & Amber.” Steve Jobs must be quaking in his boots right now. Anyone

Not to one to be out-flanked by NBC (GE) or ABC (DIS), News Corp's (NWS) Fox unit will offer some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

News Corp and NBC have officially named their YouTube killer - Hulu. Ironically this name means "Cease" and "desist" in Swahili. Because of that 5 minutes after it was announced bloggers were already bashing it. YouTube killer? I think not.

John Edwards closely trails behind Rudy Giuliani on my list of my hypocritical politicians contending for their party’s nomination. Perhaps the best thing which could be said is that about Edwards is that he did a much smoother job of changing most of his previous views in preparation for a 2008 run than Giuliani did. Edwards succeeded where Giuliani has not largely due to adopting the views of a large segment of the liberal blogosphere. Unfortunately this also suggests that the liberal bloggers who accept Edwards’ new set of beliefs without question are less astute than those on the religious right who, despite all their faults, are smart enough to distrust Rudy Giuliani’s conversion to their point of view. While Edwards has so far escaped much scrutiny on the changes in his political views, the hypocrisy underlying his attacks on other candidates continues to backfire against him. His initial attempts to attack other Democrats on their positons on Iraq were shot dow

Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NWS), has spoken about some of his plans for The Wall Street... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Drudge features this pic on his site. Yikes, can you imagine being his trophy wife? I guess those billions talk in some ways, but it's been a tough fight for Daddy-Rupert-bucks to impress the zany Bancroft clan so he can make the ultimate trophy play. Still, Rupe may win his prize... stay tuned.

El empresario Rupert Murdoch tendría intenciones de adquirir una cuarta parte del gigante de Internet, a cambio de su red social y el portal de videojuegos IGN La compañía de comunicación News Corporation, propiedad del magnate australiano Rupert Murdoch, estudia vender el portal MySpace a la estadounidense Yahoo! a cambio de una participación del 25 por ciento en el gigante de búsqueda de Internet. Murdoch estaría interesado en cerrar un acuerdo con Yahoo! para ampliar sus negocios en la Red y entrar en el capital de uno de los espacios web más visitados del mundo, aunque el precio a pagar sea desprenderse de MySpace, el popular sitio que News Corporation adquirió en 2005 por 580 millones de dólares, informa el periódico británico The Times . Junto a MySpace, News Corporation estudia ofrecer también a Yahoo! el portal de videojuegos IGN , comprado en 2005 por 650 millones de dólares. Aunque las negociaciones siguen adelante, el periódico británico -propiedad de Murdo

Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp. reported a 6.2 percent profit increase for its latest quarter Wednesday on higher earnings from movies including "Night at the Museum" and growth in...

NBC Universal and News Corp. said today that they are planning on launching an online video site sometime this summer, which will compete directly with Google Inc.’s popular video sharing site, YouTube.  This new site is going to offer full-length television shows as well as movies and clips on popular shows such as “The Simpsons” and “Saturday Night Live.” The site’s initial distribution partners will include, Yahoo Inc, Time Warner Inc, News Corp’s MySpace and AOL, and as of now Cadbury Schweppes Plc, Cisco Systems Inc and General Motors have signed up as advertisers for the free video sharing site. Peter Chernin, Chief Operating Officer and News Corp. President, said that “this is a game changer for Internet video.”  He also said that, “We’ll have access to just about the entire U.S. Internet audience at launch.  And for the first time, consumers will get what they want — professionally produced video deliver

Google scored another distribution deal yesterday, this time it was BSkyB. Before that, we saw AOL , Intuit, eBay non-US, Vodafone UK and a Sky-sister: Fox Interactive Media (including MySpace). The deal includes search and sponsored search, video technology (for a UGC portal) and communications (a customised Gmail version, supplying @sky.com addresses). These services are available to Sky