McClatchy Will Not Implement Pay Walls, Happy With Google Links

The strategy led by News Corp. to remove free news content from the web is now under threat with news that one of the United States' largest newspaper groups will be keeping their links in Google, and ... continue

So, Newsday, how’s that paywall working out for you?

As a native Long Islander, I was amused when Newsday, our local paper, waded fearlessly and without irony into the ice-cold waters of charging for news on the internet. I don't know anyone who has ever paid for ... continue

The New York Times to retreat behind a paywall

Expected at some point during the next couple of weeks is the announcement by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Chairman of New York Times, that the illustrious Gray Lady well be retreating to her petticoats of a paywall. As ... continue

Now News Corp Has Started Blocking Some Sites, No Excuse Not To Block Google

UK News Corp newspaper The Times has started blocking some sites from indexing its content using the Robots.txt standard, demonstrating that not only do they know how to do it, there's no longer any excuse when it ... continue

Murdoch Thinks He’s Caesar. Dare We Say Beware The Ides Of March

If you ever needed a sure sign of how delusional the battle against new media from News Corp has become, news today suggests that Rupert Murdoch believes himself to be Julius Caesar. Kara Swisher at AllThingsD details how ... continue

News Corp Fact Checking Strikes Again: WSJ In Plagiarism Scandal

That wonderful fact checking at News Corp (the same quality checking that saw me named by News Corp as having hacked the site of the Australian Prime minister) has struck again, and this time it's at the ... continue

Has the Great News Corp Exodus from Google already begun? [UPDATED]

Well we've been calling for Rupert Murdoch to put up or shut up for sometime, as have others, and it would seem to some great digging by Zee over at The Next Web that News Corp may ... continue

Microsoft & News Corp – what is good for the goose should be good for the gander

Even though the US is heading into turkey weekend the discussion around Microsoft cutting deals to de-list from Google and go strictly with Bing with any newspaper organization willing to listen continues unabated. In two past posts here ... continue

The stupid line-up continues to grow as more newspapers commit to following Murdoch

Yesterday I wrote here at The Inquisitr about how stupid I thought the idea of Microsoft paying News Corp to pull its media properties from Google's search index. Of course this is something that Rupert Murdoch; the ... continue

Microsoft once more proves you can indeed buy stupidity

I am not sure if you can put a price on stupidity or not; but I am pretty sure that if you could weasel out of Steve Ballmer how much this possible getting into bed with the ... continue

Is It Time For A Bing/ Microsoft Boycott?

Following on from news last month that Microsoft was in talks with AP to give AP new stories a better run on Bing comes news today that Microsoft is in talks with News Corp to exclusively feature ... continue

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