Tag archive: rupert murdoch

Prepare for a lot of SOPA talk in the coming days. The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act suffered a few setbacks in recent days, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor promising that no vote will happen until all sides can agree on the bill's main points. More importantly, a White House blog post came out against any potentially harmful legislation that “reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines… Read More

Justin Timberlake wants to inject some life into ailing social network MySpace, but as anyone following the rise and fall of the former juggernaut knows, there are years of failures to address before MySpace can reclaim its glory. Heck, even News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch knows his company didn't do the best job of handling the social network after it purchased MySpace in 2005, and he recently said as much — in surprisingly blunt… Read More

Google is now allowing publishers to choose top stories to highlight within the Google News section. The new Editors' Picks section started as a Google Labs experiment last year and Google has been actively working with more than 20 major publishers on perfecting the new content feed. Publishers get to decide what stories, videos or audio clips are going to be displayed in the feed and send that information to Google with a special RSS… Read More

Metropolitan Police have arrested Stuart Kuttner, a 71-year old man that was the public face of now-closed News of the World and the previous managing editor between 1987 and 2009. Kuttner wasn't aware that he was being taken into custody after arriving at a London police station earlier today. He was taken into custody jointly by officers from two task forces. Operation Weeting is looking into criminal charges around phone hacking and… Read More

It's safe to say Rupert Murdoch is having a bad month. A couple developers have created free tools to help consumers stay away from websites owned by the Murdoch media empire. A Firefox add-on called MurdochAlert creates a warning when users are loading one of  100+ sites.  For instance, if a user lands on Fox News, an alert bar appears to warn the user of the “potential computer security risks of accessing Murdoch-controlled… Read More

After 168 years of operation, popular British tabloid News of the World will publish its last issue on Sunday, reports The Telegraph. The shut down of the world's most-read English language newspaper, caused by a cellphone hacking scandal carried out by some of the paper's staff, was announced today by James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns News of the World parent company News Corp. “This Sunday will be… Read More

The leaders of the G8 countries joined with leaders of the increasingly essential Internet economy this week for the first-ever eG8 conference in Paris, France, to discuss the future of the Web and its role in the offline world. The eG8 was organized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who today delivered the opening keynote and discussion at the conference. Other speakers at eG8 include Google chairman Eric Shmidt, Facebook co-founder and CEO… Read More

Mere hours after the Wall Street Journal unveiled its own version of WikiLeaks, a service called SafeHouse that allows whistleblowers to submit sensitive news to the newspaper's reporters, researchers say that the “secure” service is anything but, reports Forbes. SafeHouse invites readers to share information relevant to “fraud, abuse, pollution, insider trading, and other harms,” and says it offers them the ability… Read More

Word slipped out over the weekend that the News Corp.-owned IGN.com would be acquiring UGO.com and ultimately spinning out into a gaming-focused website operating outside of the Rupert Murdoch company's domain. That news has been officially confirmed today by IGN president Roy Bahat, in an interview with TechCrunch. Bahat describes the new development as a “Go Big moment for us,” explaining that this situation doesn't… Read More

News Corp.'s IGN and Hearst Corporation's UGO, which notably acquired 1UP.com in 2009, are two of the top video game media powerhouses on the Internet. And they're about to join forces, according to a report from AllThingsD. IGN will acquire the Hearst holding as part of a planned move to separate itself from News Corp. and operate independently as “a standalone Web business that will focus primarily on video game news,… Read More

This morning, as expected, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch will be on hand at New York's Guggenheim Museum to announce the launch of the company's new daily newspaper for the iPad, called The Daily. The event starts at 11 a.m. EST, so there's nothing to be found just yet either on Apple's App Store or the news outlet's web portal. News Corp has kept the actual product tightly under wraps during development and interest… Read More

Steve Jobs will join News Corps. CEO Rupert Murdoch next week to announce the launch of The Daily for the iPad, according to Yahoo's blog The Cutline. The event is expected to take place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, January 19, but the date may change according to the report. Neither News Corps. nor Apple have officially acknowledged that the event is taking place. Reports that News Corps. was working on a tablet… Read More

Richard Branson's Virgin has launched the inaugural issue of its magazine designed to be read on Apple's iPad. The magazine, dubbed simply Project, is currently on sale in the Apple App Store for $2.99 for issue number one. Project will focus on entertainment, design, technology, and entrepreneurs. The magazine plans to have a new issue launched monthly, but with new content constantly being added throughout each month. Engadget has… Read More

Rumors have already surfaced about the News-Corp-produced iPad newspaper The Daily, and in a few weeks the company may be ready to formally fire up the digital-only presses. According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Apple and News Corp will tentatively launch The Daily on December 9, and Apple will allegedly  also announce subscriptions through iTunes, allowing customers to receive automatically delivered newspapers and magazines to their… Read More

The iPad is about to be Murdoched. The News Corp. CEO who hates the free Internet is planning an iPad newspaper, reports WWD. Called “The Daily,” the digital paper will cost $.99 a week ($4.25 per month) and have a newsroom of 100+ staff. The new paper will cover the country and break stories like any national news outlet, though The Daily will not have foreign correspondents or any staff in Washington D.C. This report seems to… Read More