Time for Google, and Microsoft, to call Murdock’s bluff

There's been a lot of go-round this past week about Rupert Murdock yanking everyone's chain about pulling their content from Google unless the search giant is willing to cough up some money for the privilege of indexing News Corp ... continue

News Corp Dithers on Google Pullout While AP Asks For More Traffic

News Corp has indicated that its expected withdrawal from Google search results won't be for months, while on the same day AP has met with Google asking for more traffic. News Corp’s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller told ... continue

What’s Old is New: Why Murdoch Doesn’t Get New Media

Much has been written online over the last two days following News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch's chit-chat with Sky News Australia (see our coverage here and here.) There's a ton a different points that can be dissected and ... continue

Murdoch and News Corp don’t deserve web traffic so STFU and pull the plug

I'm getting really sick and tired on this waffling back and forth by old screwed up news organizations like the AP and News Corp. All they seem to do is constantly whine and cry about how all ... continue

Epic Win: News Corp Likely To Remove Content From Google

News Corp founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch has told an interview with Sky News Australia that News Corp will likely remove News Corp content from Google. The revelation came early in the interview, after Murdoch claimed that Google ... continue

Profits at Murdoch’s News Corp. Jump 11 Percent

New York, NY (AHN) - News Corp., the media giant with interests in newspapers, film and television, reported an 11 percent gain in first-quarter profit on Thursday. The New York-based company said net income rose to $571 million, ... continue

How News Corp slandered this site

There's nothing funny about being defamed and accused of undertaking illegal activities, and that's precisely what Australia's biggest newspaper group is currently doing to The Inquisitr, and by extension myself today. Over two posts Wednesday evening (Australian Eastern) ... continue

Are we all watching the world’s biggest game of bluff poker?

The newspaper world is changing and struggling to find its way online in a fashion that will see the leaders of the conglomerates that own them maintain their wealth and power. Zachary M. Seward ... continue

Media buyer claims News Corp preparing to sue Google, Yahoo over news services

Harold Mitchell, the founder of one of Australia's largest advertising groups and a man connected to News Corp locally, said in a radio interview Thursday (local time) that News Corp. is preparing to sue Google and Yahoo ... continue

MySpace turns to gaming to compete

MySpace, that social networking site you last looked at in 2006 before being seduced by Facebook's crisp blues and clean whites, is now looking to gaming to help it compete. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference ... continue

Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers. In a wide ranging lecture about how News ... continue

Another who cares Hulu post – this time get your wallet ready

Over the last couple of days I’ve been seeing a couple of posts showing up suggesting that people get ready to open their wallets soon if they want to keep using Hulu. Now for ... continue