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‘The Daily’ Won’t Use Apple’s iAd System

The Daily, an iPad only publication from News Corp will feature various big name publishers including Pepsi, Virgin, Macy's and various others, but what it won't feature is ads from Apple's own iAd system. Medialets according to AdAge ... continue

News Corp Says iPad Apps Are Cannibalizing Newspaper Sales

Welcome to the 21st century! News Corp has announced that iPad apps have cannibalized traditional newspaper sales. James Murdock, Rupert Murdoch's son and head of the company's Asian/European operations told attendees at the Monaco Media Forum that ... continue

The cost of Murdoch’s paywall experiment? 90% of The Times traffic.

Way to go Rupert. Not only are your reporters pissed at the drop in traffic but your advertisers are leaving in droves. All because you knew better than the rest of the web and put everything behind a ... continue

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

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

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