News Corporation
hideNews 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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Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...
News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.
News Corp. net profit up on movie, cable TV showing
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Global media giant News Corp. posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday as strong results from its movie, cable television and book publishing divisions offset a newspaper slump.
Google puts songs a click away in search
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. Wednesday will bring its U.S. searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song.
News Corp. exec sees Hulu charging fees for access
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hulu, the free online video site where television shows and movies can be watched in their entirety, will start charging fees at some point, one of its owners said.
Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves (Update 2)
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.
Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.
Wall Street Journal to charge for mobile access from Oct 24
Sep 17, 2009 |
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The Wall Street Journal announced on Thursday that it will begin charging for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or Apple iPhone from October 24.
Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition.
News Corp. seeks stake in Saudi media company: WSJ
Sep 02, 2009 |
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News Corp. is in talks with Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to take a stake in Rotana Media in what would be its first major investment in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
News Corp. seeking to form online news consortium: LAT
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Media giant News Corp. is holding talks with other newspaper publishers on forming a consortium that would charge for news online and on portable devices, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.
News International plans to shut free London paper
Aug 20, 2009 |
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News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corporation, said Thursday it planned to shut thelondonpaper, the group's loss-making freesheet for London commuters.
MySpace scoops up popular Facebook app iLike
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and ...
Whither Redbox? Hollywood studios are conflicted
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving ...
News Corp. plans fees for newspaper Web sites
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start coughing up fees to read the news within the next year, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said.
