Hip-hop Star Nas Leads Fox Protest
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A protest by about 50 persons including hip-hop star Nas brought the news media out in force outside the New York headquarters of News Corp Wednesday. Two ...
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SPOTTED: NAS PROTESTING IN FRONT OF FOX NEWS’ HEADQUARTERS
Concrete Loop (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
As we reported earlier this week, Nas joined ColorofChange.org and MoveOn.org to protest the racist antics of the Fox News Corporation. He is pictured above speaking to the crowd of fans, media and random new yorkers on Wednesday afternoon in front of the Fox News Headquarters. They also delivered more than 600,000 petition signatures to [...]
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News Corp's Chernin on Evolving Media
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: News Corp's (NWS) President and COO Peter Chernin took the hot seat, talking about competition and the 'MySpace effect." Fortune's media correspondent Richard Siklos interviewed Chernin in front of attendees of the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech Conference. In an event crammed with Chernin's competition -- other media and tech execs -- Chernin says the competitive set is "much less...
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Online video links from SAI, sorted for my viewing pleasure
Clickety Clack: Online Ad Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Youtube YouTube (GOOG) Dangling New Ad Strategy To Lure Hollywood. Can It Deliver?- Link YouTube Exec: We're Selling Ads Against 'Less Than 3%' Of Our Videos- Link Hulu Who's Watching Hulu? A Bunch Of Dudes- Link News Corp COO Chernin:...
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POLITRICKS: Nas Comes Face To Face With The Sly Fox
The Daily Grind (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I just got back from the MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org protest of the Fox News Corporation and News Corporation. Legendary Hip-hop lyricist Nas hosted the entire protest after being just over an hour late. As usual the NYPD and Hip-hop police squads were in attendance, but the true crowd was formed by members of MoveOn.org, ColorOfChange.org, fans of Nas, and your average American citizen who is...
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MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
News Corp's MySpace Internet social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again.
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MySpace embraces OpenID but offers a limited implementation
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Facebook rival and News Corporation property, MySpace has announced that it has joined the OpenID brotherhood, a not so secret society that hopes promotes an identification system which enables people to log into multiple websites by using just one ID. While this noble idea has now received MySpace's blessing, the problem with the social network's implementation of OpenID is that, while it enables...
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News Corp COO Chernin: Hulu Will Go International, Slowly (NWS)
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
How will Hulu -- the popular Web TV joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal -- make its way overseas? Slowly -- and in pieces. Hulu will eventually launch international editions, says News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, but probably as a series of local joint ventures in each individual country. Hulu is blocked abroad is because the rights to different TV shows vary by country. So instead of...
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Chernin On MySpace Effect On News Corp; Hulu International JVs
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Peter Chernin, the COO of News Corp, is speaking at Fortune's conference, and talked about MySpace's effect on News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ). One example he gave: "If we did anything on Hulu it was about user experience...every decision we made was the lens of user experience. And that very much came from managing MySpace...What users were more interested in was aggregation...so we weren't that interested...
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MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace Internet social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again.
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BSkyB, Universal Form JV To Launch Subscription Music Service
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is UK satcaster and ISP BSkyB ( NYSE: BSY ), 39 percent owned by News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ). it's secured Universal's Total Music repertoire (which includes Amy Winehouse) for a new launch that will allow unlimited MP3 downloading and on-demand streaming for a monthly subscription in the UK and Ireland. And it's starting a new...
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Guru Stocks at 52-Week Low: Exxon Mobil Corp, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp, News Corp, EBay Inc, MetLife Inc.
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The market has slightly recovered from its past plunges last week and was up about 1.5%. Energy stocks retreated from their recent highs. These are the top five stocks that have reached their 52-week lows last week were Exxon Mobil Corp, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp, News Corp, EBay Inc, and MetLife Inc.
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'Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims'
Sify (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Yahoo Inc is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft Corp because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties, a person with knowledge of the plans said on Thursday.
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Murdoch's Bulgarian TV on Sale for USD 800 M - Report
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The largest Bulgarian private TV channel bTV owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is on sale, and the likely sum for which it would sold is at least USD 800 M, the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily reported Saturday. The news for the sale of bTV has been confirmed by its Managing Director Viki ...
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Technology Report: Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source
M I S C E L L A N E O U S (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Having trouble viewing this mail? Click here Good afternoon, Today's Headlines Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source Fans drool over iPhone, but ask for more Tech firms offer investors a mixed snapshot Volume rises for music video games Google loses share as Yahoo, Microsoft gain: report Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon Nintendo says sold 666,000 Wii in U.S. in June Nokia's...
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