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News Corp. net profit up on movie, cable TV showing

AFP Global Edition 16 days ago

Global media giant News Corp. posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday as strong results from its movie, cable television and book publishing divisions offset a newspaper slump. News Corp. reported a net profit of 571 million dollars, ...

News Corp. exec sees Hulu charging fees for access

AP News 29 days ago

News Corp. executive sees online video site Hulu charging fees for access Hulu, the free online video site where television shows and movies can be watched in their entirety, will start charging fees at some point, one of its owners said. Hulu ...

White House criticism of Fox increasing ratings: Murdoch

AFP Global Edition 36 days ago

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Friday that White House criticism of commentators on his Fox News television channel had served to "tremendously" increase their ratings. "There were some strong remarks coming out of the White House about one or two ...

AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines to pay up

AP News 40 days ago

AP, News Corp bosses say it is time for search engines, bloggers to pay for content The leaders of two of the world's major news organizations said Friday that it is time for search engines and others who use news content for ...

AP, News Corp bosses say pay up

AP News 43 days ago

AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines and bloggers that it is time to pay up The message from some of the world's leading news providers at the first Beijing international media summit was clear: It's time to demand payment for online ...

Murdoch to meet Samsung, LG Elec execs: sources

Reuters US Online Report Business News 45 days ago

SEOUL (Reuters) - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch will meet senior executives of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and LG Electronics Inc in South Korea, sources said on Wednesday, amid reports he would discuss selling news and movie content through Samsung's broadband TVs. ...

MySpace names a finance chief

Reuters US Online Report Technology News 47 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace has named a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer consultant as its chief financial officer, a new position for the online social network. Mark Rosenbaum was a financial consultant to the MGM movie studio, and before that was a ...

Google CEO questions Murdoch's online pay plan

Reuters US Online Report Technology News 65 days ago

CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Google Inc said on Thursday. Speaking to a group of British broadcasting executives ...

Wall Street Journal to charge for mobile access from Oct 24

AFP Global Edition 65 days ago

The Wall Street Journal announced on Thursday that it will begin charging for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or Apple iPhone from October 24. The Journal said a mobile-only subscription will cost two dollars a week ...

THE STRUGGLE TO GET BOYS' ATTENTION

BusinessWeek 65 days ago

THE STRUGGLE TO GET BOYS' ATTENTION Ask media executives what audience they covet most these days and they will likely tell you: boys. The U.S. has 30 million males aged 5 to 19, and capturing their attention with a TV show, movie, ...

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