News Corporation’s first-quarter profits down 30% after drop in television advertising revenue
News Corporation, parent company of The Times, reported a 30 per cent drop in first-quarter profits, as falling revenues from television advertising and declining film studio sales hit the bottom line.
Britain's Blinkx flies on Google, Newscorp bid talk (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of British video search engine firm Blinkx surged 50 percent to a seven-month high on Friday, on talk that Internet giant Google and media conglomerate NewsCorp may bid for the firm. 
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The Games may be up for BBC as...
Fifty years of Olympic Games coverage on the BBC could come to an end in 2014
after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vowed yesterday to tear up
the way television...
ASX high at noon as Wall St soars
The Australian stock market was up at noon as News Corporation Ltd reported robust fourth-quarter and full-year results.
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Murdoch to put $100m into India's...
Rupert Murdoch's media empire is to spend $100m (£51m) launching six local-language television channels in India over the coming year.
Dow launches Global Dow, India index
Dow Jones will launch two new indexes, the Global Dow and a blue-chip Indian index, News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch announced in Mumbai.
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News Corp to underwrite €450 million rescue of Premiere
News Corporation, parent company of The Times, could end up in control of Premiere, the German pay-television operator, after it agreed to underwrite a €450 million (£426 million) rescue.
JCDecaux in talks to buy News Outdoor Group and become world’s market leader
JCDecaux, the French advertising group, is in talks to acquire News Outdoor Group, the $1 billion ($£571 million) News Corporation-owned outdoor advertising business that revealed this week that its Moscow headquarters had been raided by Russian authorities.
Yahoo Shareholder Doubles Up As AOL,...
TechWeb - Possibly betting that Microsoft is ready to increase its offer for Yahoo, Capital World Investors disclosed that it now owns 10.1% of outstanding stock in the Internet...
Here we go again; Microsoft mulling...
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Microsoft is now seeking big-name partners such as NewsCorp or Time Warner to take another run at...
NewsCorp's Murdoch predicts loosening...
AFP - Press baron Rupert Murdoch predicted Wednesday that despite Beijing's tight controls, the media market will open up in China "in ensuing regimes" and provide major...
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Spielberg close to movie deal with...
DreamWorks SKG, the Hollywood film studio, is close to signing a deal with one
of India's biggest entertainment conglomerates to form a new movie venture.
News Corporation joins Microsoft in takeover talks about Yahoo!
Microsoft is in discussions with News Corporation, parent company of The Times, about a possible joint bid for search engine Yahoo! that could tilt the takeover battle decisively in favour of the predators.
Fox TV: FCC F-bomb sanctions have "radical ramifications"
Fourteen days before "fleeting expletive" judgment day at the Supreme Court, News Corporation's head honcho gives a First Amendment war whoop speech. Still, Peter Chernin conceded, some of what Fox TV broadcasts is kinda gross.Read More... 
Yahoo Is Said to Be in Talks With...
The discussions stem from an approach that Yahoo’s bankers made to News Corporation in an effort to find a “white knight” and avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Yahoo Is Said to Be in Talks With...
The discussions stem from an approach that Yahoo’s bankers made to News Corporation in an effort to find a “white knight” and avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Yahoo Is Said to Be in Talks With...
The discussions stem from an approach that Yahoo’s bankers made to News Corporation in an effort to find a “white knight” and avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Apple to make major studios’ films...
Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major
Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet
service at prices on a par with...
Time Warner splits
US media's experiment with owning distribution seems to be over. News Corporation led by getting rid of its DirecTV satellite business. Now Time Warner has committed itself to...
Bollywood strikes Hollywood deal
Arts & entertainment: Indian billionaire to make 10 films for world market, as weak US economy courts foreign investment
News Corp promotes Mockridge
Tom Mockridge, chief executive of Sky Italia, has been appointed to the extra role of chief executive of European Television for News Corporation.