Microsoft and News Corp Forging Anti-Google Web Pact

Microsoft wants to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to pull its material from Google's search index and list with Bing exclusively. In other words, Bing will have exclusive rights to deliver search results for News Corp content. In terms of making a quick buck, I can see how...

Rupert Murdoch: News Corp to Charge Viewers for News Site Access

Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, has announced that News Corp. sites will charge viewers for access by the end of the year. News Corporation properties include The Telegraph, The News of the World, and news.com.au. Bad idea, Mr. Murdoch. News Corporation's content is...

Cablevision Bids $650 Million for Newsday

Just a thought: maybe there could be a business version of Iron Chef that would begin..."And so I say unto you, in the words of my father, let the bidding war for control of Newsday...be-gin!"UPDATE | May 2nd -...

Yahoo-AOL-Google Alliance Created to Fend Off News Corp-Microsoft Hostile Tak...

Whats sure to be the wildest hostiletakeover ever!Yahoo finally takes up Google's offerto form strategic partnership to fend off hostile takeover by Microsoft. Google's CEO Eric E. Schmidt, placed a call to...

Political Pictures and Buttons

Glass buttons and general political pictures that I want to use in stories and other people may enjoy using as well.

Yahoo in talks with News Corp.

The plot thickens..." Microsoft has a new competitor for Yahoo's affections: Rupert Murdoch.The Netco is talking to News Corp. about a potential deal that would merge Yahoo with News Corp.'s Web assets like...

Murdoch's Fox Makes $250 M from Super Bowl

Holy cash cow: Fox not only leads the cable news ratings they also dominate the dollars from America's largest sporting event."News Corp's Fox network generated about $250 million from Super Bowl television...

News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo

The rumors keep on rolling around the surprise semi-hostile Microsoft bid for Yahoo. Sillicon Alley Insider says they’ve heard that a couple of hedge funds were already preparing their own bids for Yahoo, and...

MySpace, BBC Reach Global Video Deal

I don't know that BBC and MySpace are the most logical partners, but the BBC seems to view this opportunity as an effective means of getting programming out to new audiences; and MySpaceTV does have 'localized...

News Corp aims to Slay Facebook and YouTube

This is something to watch:"For News Corp, judgement time is here. The company’s Hulu video site - touted in the press as a “YouTube rival”, is scheduled for an immediate test launch. Meanwhile, the MySpace...

"Rupert Murdoch is the Hellmouth": Buffy fans

Rupert Murdoch should know better than to cross Super Fans--a powerful legion of fandom has proven far stronger than any one rich dude many times in the past few years (see: Snakes on a Plane, Lost, Heroes, et....

Myspace to open SF office

I still can't believe that Rupert Murdoch has become the poster boy for the Internet.  Believe it or not, he'll be the keynote at next week's Web 2.0 event.  Word has it that it'll be tied to myspace's move to the bay area:"Unable to find enough talented engineers...

VIDEO: The Huge Implications of Rupert Murdoch's Victory

"Rupert Murdoch is going to come in as a purpose-driven, hands-on manager with an agenda."Here are the highlights from the video:The current executives have been driftingMy compete with the NYTimesMay go into...

Dow Jones Accepts Murdoch's Offer

CNN reports that the sale of Dow Jones to News Corp has been officially approved by the board.  Dow Jones & Co. has accepted Rupert Murdoch's acquisition offer. The $5 billion offer was accepted by the...

MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders

Great...now what the hell are you going to do on MySpace? "Popular Internet social network MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the...

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