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The Daily iPad App Hits 100,000 Paid Subscribers

The Daily iPad App Hits 100,000 Paid Subscribers

The Daily, a news iPad app from News Corp., has hit 100,000 paid subscribers after being in existence a year. They celebrated their first birthday today with some good news. The iPad app was started shortly after ... continue
Rupert Murdoch Attacks Obama And Google In Weekend Twitter Attacks

Rupert Murdoch Attacks Obama And Google In Weekend Twitter Attacks

News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch may have just recently joined Twitter but his attacks against the British and now President Obama and Google have quickly become top trending topics on the social network. Murdoch might be the only ... continue
Rupert Murdoch Comes Clean About Myspace

Rupert Murdoch Comes Clean About Myspace

Remember Myspace? It was a hotbed for teenagers to connect and chat with their friends, and had some popularity with the adult crowd. Recently, Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter and he's been fairly active. Being that he is the ... continue
Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Makes Him Remove Twitter Bashing Tweet Against Brits

Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Makes Him Remove Twitter Bashing Tweet Against Brits

News Corp. founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch made his Twitter debut less than 48 hours ago and he's already receiving negative publicity after posting a comment about British holidays. In a Tweet on the site Murdoch wrote:  "Maybe Brits ... continue
News Corp. Paid Rebekah Brooks $2.7 Million Severance Package

News Corp. Paid Rebekah Brooks $2.7 Million Severance Package

Forget Wall Street analysts who earn millions of dollars for betting correctly about the market, News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was paid millions of dollars for literally toppling a 167-year-old news institution overnight while creating ... continue
News Of The World Hacked At Least 5,795 Phones [Evidence]

News Of The World Hacked At Least 5,795 Phones [Evidence]

Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal say they have uncovered 11,000 pages of notes from professional snooper Glenn Mulcaire. In those notes investigators say Mulcaire spied on 5,795 potential victims of the phone ... continue
News Corp. Lawyer Documents Reveal Knowledge Of “Hacking Culture” In 2008

News Corp. Lawyer Documents Reveal Knowledge Of “Hacking Culture” In 2008

In 2008 an outside lawyer working for News Corp. submitted various documents that warned of a a "culture of illegal information access" at the now defunct News of the World newspaper. The new documents could prove that ... continue
News Corp. And DirecTV Reach Agreement, Avoid Blackout

News Corp. And DirecTV Reach Agreement, Avoid Blackout

DirecTV customers no longer need to worry about a News Corp. blackout that would have affected regional sports channels, FX and other Fox-owned cable channels. In a joint statement the two company's said: “We both know the past ten ... continue
DirecTV Files FCC Complaint Over Fox Publicity Attacks

DirecTV Files FCC Complaint Over Fox Publicity Attacks

DirecTV on Thursday filed an FCC compliant against Fox after the company spent the last week running newspaper ads and TV promos attacking DirecTV's currently negotiations with the company. In a letter sent from DirectTV executive vice president Derek ... continue
News Corp. Settles One Phone Hacking Scandal For $4.8 Million

News Corp. Settles One Phone Hacking Scandal For $4.8 Million

News Corp. has reached a settlement in one phone hacking scandal. The company has agreed to pay the family of a murdered girl at the center of the case the sum of $4.8 million. Under the agreement the ... continue
DirecTV at odds with Fox Networks, may drop channels

DirecTV at odds with Fox Networks, may drop channels

Fox issued a statement yesterday that brings along some potentially bad news if you're a DirecTV subscriber. The network has apparently had a disagreement with satellite provider DirecTV, and if their carriage dispute isn't settled soon, more ... continue
News Corp. Sets Up Internal Whistleblower Hotline

News Corp. Sets Up Internal Whistleblower Hotline

In an attempt to avoid another News of the World incident News Corp. has setup an internal whistleblower hotline. The 24-hour "alertline" is meant to be used by employees who wish to report violations regarding the company's ... continue
News Corp. To Be Sued Next Week Over Hacking Scandal

News Corp. To Be Sued Next Week Over Hacking Scandal

It looks like News Corp. and CEO Rupert Murdoch will be getting their U.S. based day in court sooner rather than later, Mark Lewis, a lawyer in Britain's phone hacking scandal has announced that he expects the ... continue
Alec Baldwin Walks Out On Emmy Awards Show After Rupert Murdoch Joke Gets Pulled

Alec Baldwin Walks Out On Emmy Awards Show After Rupert Murdoch Joke Gets Pulled

30 Rock star Alec Baldwin won't be at the Emmy Awards tonight after he walked out on the show after a joke about News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was cut from a segment he had recorded to ... continue
News Corp. Shareholders Sue Company Over Phone Hacking Scandal

News Corp. Shareholders Sue Company Over Phone Hacking Scandal

Rupert Murdoch is watching as his News Corp. media conglomerate unravels and now word is surfacing that some of the company's major shareholders have filed a lawsuit against News Corp. The suit alleges that board members knew ... continue
Fox’s stupid 8-Day delay on Hulu sparks increased “piracy”. DUH!

Fox’s stupid 8-Day delay on Hulu sparks increased “piracy”. DUH!

Last week Fox Network announced that they were pulling all day after access for their shows being viewed on Hulu. Needless to say this sparked a bit of outrage but it turns out that outrage may not ... continue
Rupert Murdoch To Step Down As CEO of News Corp [Rumor]

Rupert Murdoch To Step Down As CEO of News Corp [Rumor]

Phone hacking scandals, executives being attacked by LulzSec and Anonymous, now would be a good time for Rupert Murdoch to step down from his role as the CEO of News Corp and if a CNBC Breaking News ... continue
Whistleblower in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal found dead

Whistleblower in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal found dead

This story just keeps getting worse and worse. This morning Michael Söze reported here that Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of News International, has been arrested; and now we find out courtesy of a report in the ... continue
Larry Flynt Attacks Rupert Murdoch, News of the World

Larry Flynt Attacks Rupert Murdoch, News of the World

Hustler founder Larry Flynt isn't happy with the way Rupert Murdoch is running News Corp following the recent News of the World scandal and U.S. investigations into the company's reporting practices regarding the attempting hacking of 9/11 ... continue
News Corp Under Investigation, Attempted To Hack Phones Of 9/11 Victims

News Corp Under Investigation, Attempted To Hack Phones Of 9/11 Victims

While News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch may have closed down News of the World over their UK phone hacking scandal, investigations into the company's practices have not ended and are hitting closer to home with U.S. officials ... continue
MySpace CEO letter to the troops after $35 million acquisition by Specific Media

MySpace CEO letter to the troops after $35 million acquisition by Specific Media

Word is spreading pretty quickly through the tech blogosphere that MySpace has finally been purchased for the fire sale price of $35 million by Specific Media a online media and advertising company. Following that Mike Jones, (soon to ... continue
Myspace Founders No Longer Use Myspace [No Reason To Friend Tom]

Myspace Founders No Longer Use Myspace [No Reason To Friend Tom]

After hitting their peak in December 2008 social media network MySpace began to shed one million users per day and now it has been discovered that among those Facebook stealing casualties are the company's co-founder Chris DeWolfe ... continue