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News Corp. quarterly net profit up 65%
News Corp. said Wednesday that its net profit rose 65 percent in the second quarter of its fiscal year to $1.06 billion.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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British police arrest 5 in tabloid bribery probe
(AP) -- The criminal investigation into British tabloid skullduggery turned full force on a second Rupert Murdoch publication Saturday, with the arrest of four current and former journalists from The Sun ...
Jan 29, 2012 |
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News Corp plans US Spanish-language TV network
(AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is launching a Spanish-language broadcast TV network that aims to bring the flavor of the Fox network to Hispanic audiences in the U.S.
Jan 23, 2012 |
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EU in antitrust probe of Apple, e-book publishers (Update)
The European Union's antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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News Corp. net profit dips on British charges
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. posted a slight decline in quarterly net profit on Wednesday, partly due to one-time charges stemming from the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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'Gossip Girl,' other CW shows coming to Hulu
(AP) -- Current-season shows on The CW including "The Vampire Diaries" and "Gossip Girl" are coming to Hulu.
Oct 29, 2011 |
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Myspace purchase a 'huge mistake': Murdoch
News Corp's purchase of Myspace was a "huge mistake" and the social network was mismanaged "in every possible way" following the acquisition, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said Friday.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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News Corp to start Australian paywall
The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will begin charging for online content, the firm said on Thursday, with its flagship national broadsheet to move behind a paywall from next week.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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'Sons of Anarchy' app to sell goods during show
(AP) -- Watching organized crime shows apparently has a way of bringing out people's fashion sense.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Yahoo ad exec deflects talk about becoming CEO
(AP) -- The head of Yahoo's online advertising business in North America said Monday he has been too busy trying to bring in more revenue to consider whether he would be willing to become the struggling Internet ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Hola, Hulu! Univision telenovelas come online
(AP) -- Univision, the nation's No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster, is bringing its popular telenovelas and other prime-time TV programming to online video service Hulu.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Jackson doctor trial app tops App Store chart
An iPad application that offers a live stream of the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor hit the top of the charts in Apple's App Store on Thursday.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Amazon teams with Fox ahead of tablet launch
Amazon is beefing up its movie and television catalog ahead of the expected launch of a tablet computer on Wednesday.
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Sony's 'Smurfs,' 'Friends' to be UltraViolet-ready
(AP) -- Sony Corp.'s movie studio said Tuesday that "The Smurfs" and "Friends With Benefits" will be the first movies it releases on home video that will be compatible with the UltraViolet view-anywhere system.
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Silver Lake, others eye Yahoo!: reports
Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has approached Yahoo! about making a bid for the struggling Internet company, according to newspaper reports.
Sep 16, 2011 |
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News Corporation
News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp.) is one of the world's largest media conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch.
News Corporation is a publicly-traded company listed on the Nasdaq and the Australian Securities Exchange and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Formerly incorporated in South Australia, the company was re-incorporated into Delaware General Corporation Law after a majority of shareholders approved the move on 12 November 2004.
News Corporation's headquarters is at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.), in New York City, in the newer 1960s-1970s corridor of the Rockefeller Center complex.
Revenue for the year ended 30 June 2008 was US$32.996 billion with an operating income of US$5.381 billion. Almost 70% of the company's sales come from its US businesses. On 16 January 2009 the Government Accountability Office reported that News Corp has 152 subsidiaries in low-tax or no-tax countries, one of four companies to have more than 100.
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