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Media Cache: Google and News Corp. Do Need Each Other

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

To earn new revenue from sources other than advertising, online publishers will need the help of gatekeepers like Google and Microsoft.

Media Cache: Google and News Corp. Need Each Other More Than They Know

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

To earn new revenue from sources other than advertising, online publishers will need the help of gatekeepers like Google and Microsoft.

Lachlan Murdoch sells $28m News Corp stake

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

Lachlan Murdoch, the elder son of News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch, has sold half of his stake in the media empire for $27.6m (£16.7m).

Murdoch son sells half of News Corp stock, buys radio co

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

One of News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch's sons sold about $27.6 million of his shares the media company this week.

• Murdoch son sells half of News Corp stock, buys radio co - Reuters UK

Public backs News Corp/Microsoft deal

E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

In a public poll conducted by One News Page, 89% of respondents said that the proposed News Corp partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine for exclusive news access was a good idea, or 'a winner' in the words of the...

Google, Microsoft and News Corp. Fight While Consumers Stay Anchored to Free Content

SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

Michael Steinberg submits: Google ( GOOG ) fights for net neutrality and the right to index all of the world’s information for free. Verizon ( VZ ), AT&T ( T ) and content providers are out to slay the Google dragon. Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) Bing search engine fights to grab market share from Google. And News Corp. ( NWS , NWSA ) is conspiring with Microsoft to take Google down...

• Google, Microsoft and News Corp. Fight while Consumers Remain Anchored on Free Content - Click Broker

Google, Microsoft and News Corp. Fight while Consumers Remain Anchored on Free Content

Click Broker (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

Published by clickbroker.blogspot.com . Google (GOOG) fights for net neutrality and the right to index all of the world’s information for free. Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T) and content providers are out to slay the Google dragon. Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing search engine fights to grab market share from Google. And News Corp (NWS, NWSA) is conspiring with Microsoft to take Google down...

News Corp to redevelop Wapping HQ

Media Week (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

LONDON - News Corporation has been granted planning permission for a major redevelopment of its Wapping newspaper HQ, home to The Sun and The Times newspapers.

Murdoch son sells half of News Corp stock, buys radio co

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

Lachlan Murdoch, who resigned from his executive position at News Corp in 2005 but is still on its board, sold about 2.3 million shares, or just over half of his News Corp common shares, for prices that ranged from $12 to $12.03 per share, according to a filing on Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (Reporting by ; Editing by John Picinich) ((phil.wahba@thomsonreuters.com;...

News Corp is spoiling Google’s fun (not to mention ours)

VC Adventure (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

So it’s really come down to this? News Corp is thinking about inking a deal with Microsoft/Bing whereby not only will Bing get access to News Corp data (WSJ, Fox, etc.) but they’ll also prevent Google from indexing their sites. This sounds like a lose/lose/lose/lose proposition. News Corp loses - fewer page views, less revenue for their online content, and to the 90%...

Paid Exclusion: Bing and News Corp. Discuss De-Indexing Sites In Google

Search Insider (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

The Financial Times reported on Monday that both Microsoft and News Corp. are in "early stage" talks for Microsoft to carry News Corp. content properties exclusively in its Bing search results pages. The proposal also reportedly calls for News Corp. to remove its content properties from Google. But I suspect that these early talks may be just that: only talk. And I hope...

Lachlan Murdoch Sells News Corp. Stock

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

Lachlan Murdoch, the elder son of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, reported selling roughly $28 million in company stock, as his investment firm plans to purchase a stake in an Australian radio broadcaster.

News Corp. Joined by Rivals Weighing Google Block (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

An interesting pattern Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may pull some of their stories from Google Inc.’s news site, a move that would emulate News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch . News Corp. is considering blocking Google’s search engine from displaying its news articles and is talking to Microsoft Corp. about displaying stories on its Bing site, people...

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

The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

... various properties spread around the web – and off of the web as well. This would mean that all of News Corp properties including things like Wall Street Journal and MySpace should be boycotted the same way that Bing or the sale of Windows 7 is. After all what is fair for the goose should also be just as fair for the gander. Related posts: Is It Time For A Bing/ Microsoft Boycott? Murdoch...

News Corp.'s Challenge to Google

BusinessWeek Online (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Rupert Murdoch may make a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the only search engine to deliver News Corp. content—unless the antitrust cops object