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Rupert Murdoch May Ban Google from Indexing News Corp Stories

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Rupert Murdoch’s move to online users to pay for content they read is infamous at this point. The publishing impresario has some of the most popular newspapers in the world under his News Corp umbrella.

Murdoch is also running one of the few successful publications online that charges for access — The Wall Street Journal. The catch for Murdoch is that there is a well known workaround for accessing WSJ content online without having to pay or register with the publication — Google. You can search the title of most any WSJ story that requires a paid account with Google and find the complete article for free.

News Corp. Angling for Form Consortium for Paid Web News?

News Corp. Angling for Form Consortium for Paid Web News?

A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. made headlines by announcing it was planning to start charging users to read online versions of the company’s newspaper properties, by putting portions of its content behind so-called “paywalls” that could only be accessed by paid subscribers. Now, The Los Angeles Times reports that News Corp has been meeting with other news publishers with an eye towards forming a consortium to charge for online news access.

News Corp Planning to Charge for News Web Sites

News Corp Planning to Charge for News Web Sites

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 content behind so-called “paywalls” so that only paid subscribers may access its content.

MySpace Axes 420 Jobs

MySpace Axes 420 Jobs

It’s no secret that MySpace has been losing the social networking site against Facebook. In an attempt to slash costs and regain some momentum, yesterday it axed 420 jobs, or one-third of its workforce.

Last week the speculation was that the cuts would be around the world, but instead, at least so far, they’re in the US. MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.. In a statement, chief executive Owen Van Natta said:

News Corp. Looks At Charging For Websites

News Corp. Looks At Charging For Websites

News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, owns newspapers and media around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, the Times, and, of course, Fox. Yesterday, encouraged by the jump in subscriptions and the revenue that brings at WSJ, Murdoch says he’s looking at charging people to read the content at the websites of his newspapers, according to a report in the Guardian.

He said papers were undertaking an “epochal” debate about whether to charge, and added:

"That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal’s experience."

MySpace TV Inks Global Distribution Deal

MySpace TV Inks Global Distribution Deal

Social networking giant MySpace has made a deal with ShineReveille to launch MySpace TV shows like Quarterlife and Roommates on DVD and broadcast television outside the United States, or create localized versions of the shows specifically for international markets. ShineReveille will also be able to market merchandise based on the series in international markets.

“MySpace provides the creative community with a launch pad to virally test and distribute content to the world’s largest focus group,” said MySpace’s international director Travis Katz, in a statement. “MySpaceTV has quickly become Hollywood’s digital playground and our relationship with ShineReveille opens up the globe to MySpace’s international content creators.”

Microsoft, Yahoo Execs Talk Merger

Microsoft, Yahoo Execs Talk Merger

The Wall Street Journal and other sources are reporting the executives from Microsoft and Yahoo met earlier this week at Yahoo’s headquarters to discuss Microsoft’s unsolicited $42 billion takeover bid. The meeting would mark the first time executives from the two companies have met since Microsoft announced its intentions to buy Yahoo—but the meeting wasn’t a negotiation. Instead, Microsoft presented its idea of what a combined Microsoft and Yahoo would look like.

Yahoo is known to have held meetings with other potential partners, including Time Warner and News Corp., to discuss possible partnership opportunities and ways to fend off Microsoft’s takeover attempts. Earlier this week, News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch said his company would not get into a fight with Microsoft over Yahoo.

News Corp. Won’t Go After Yahoo

In comments at the annual Bear Stearns media conference in Florida, media mogul Rupert Murdoch confirmed his News Corp. will not get in the way of Microsoft’s efforts to take over Internet giant Yahoo. “We’re not going to get into a fight with Microsoft, which has a lot more money than us,” Reuters reports Murdoch told investors.

MySpace Preps to Launch Developer Platform

MySpace Preps to Launch Developer Platform

Back in October, MySpace pledged to open its platform to developers, in part to encourage third parties to deploy widgets, games, and other social networking tools on the site, but also to help the 400-pound gorilla of the social networking world maintain its lead on rival Facebook, which has seen a tremendous surge in growth in the last year in part due to opening its platform to developers.

Fox Buys BeliefNet

Fox Buys BeliefNet

Fox Entertainment Group announced today that it has inked a deal to acquire faith and spirituality Web site BeliefNet for an undisclosed amount. Under the acquisition, BeliefNet will become part of Fox Digital Media—the same branch of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation media empire that handles social networking site MySpace—and take on expanded roles supported Fox’s cable, television, and film brands.

“Beliefnet has garnered respect for its commitment to quality, editorial strength, and unbiased approach to faith and spirituality from a broad range of consumers, religious and political leaders, journalists and advertisers,” said Fox Digital Media president Dan Fawcett, in a statement. “FEG’s goal is to leverage these characteristics across a broader media canvas and provide programming, production, advertising sales, technology, and marketing expertise that will enhance an already terrific product in a rapidly growing market.”

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