Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp released its financial numbers for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2009 ( PDF ), and the results weren’t great: the company reported profits down 8 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, and Murdoch characterized the year 2009 as “the most difficult in recent history.” And what’s News Corp’s plan to stop the hemorrhaging? The company plans to lock most of its news …
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… Systems (AP Systems, President Jung Ki-ro) held a commencement ceremony for its geostationary
satellite mobile service on April 6, in their office building at Gasan-dong, Seoul. ...
A new survey from the Pew Research Center has shown that more people now receive their news online than from a physical newspaper. ...
A new report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds that television is still Americans’ leading source of news and information, but an increasing number of Americans are turning to online news sources, particularly among advertising’s most-coveted demographics. ...
The Associated Press has launched its own Mobile News Network , a Web-based applications specifically designed to bring news and information from the AP’s collection of over 100 new organizations to mobile phone users everywhere. ...
Refreshing its
Satellite Pro line of business notebooks on Tuesday, Toshiba rolled out five new machines tailored to mobile professional. ...
In June of 2006, AOL announced it would be adding social news features to its Netscape portal, aiming to tap into the popularity of sites like Digg, Slashdot, and Google News in which the rankings assigned to news stories by the site’s users can determine (in part) what news items are most prominently displayed. ...
Google News is changing its focus. For the last five years it’s offered links to news articles from all over the Web, but it will start hosting articlesfrom four news agencies, which will give it the chance to generate ad revenue from the news. ...
If there’s one thought that’s crossed the mind of most
satellite TV owners—besides “where is that darn remote?”—it could be this: since the
satellite signal the system receives is available almost everywhere, why is my television stuck in the living room? Shouldn’t I be able to tap in wherever I go?” Well, the simple answer is that you can pull in
satellite signals pretty much wherever you go in a service provider’s coverage area: the …
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Popular social networking site MySpace is owned by media giant News Corp. , so in some ways it shuldn’t come as a big surprise that MySpace has decided to get into the news business, offering news stories and headlines to its members and giving them a chance to rank and comment on the stories they see…and if they don’t find anything they like, they can create their own news from their …
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