Posts Tagged with ‘rupert-murdoch’

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media.
The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that would grant iTunes users the option to rent films produced by the studio. The news of the impending partnership comes in anticipation of [...]

It has surely seemed as though tech pundits everywhere have been occupied with the analysis of social networks over the course of the past year almost entirely, has it not? Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and various others – in that order – that have placed themselves in webpages everywhere on an almost daily basis. It looks as though they’ve even made record showings in various physical “old media” newsprints.
So why, you must ask, do we continue to ride the main line [...]

Boy, were the rumors off the mark or what?
Though we failed to cover the buzz surrounding the supposed imminent purchase (now debunked) of LinkedIn by News Corp, for the fact that we simply have a finite supply of writers here at Profy and only so many hours in the day in which we are able to happily slave work studiously in front of our screens for you, our readers, we thought it’d be right to put at least a [...]

Another advertising-specific story today. This bit coming by way of MySpace.
According to a story published yesterday on TechCrunch, the largest of the Web’s social network giants is going to take some stage time at the Ad:Tech New York conference, held at the Hilton for four days this week, “to introduce a new advertising platform,” dubbed ‘SelfServe by MySpace’.
What for, you ask? The company is said to want to enhance its relationship with advertisers, and enable them to more specifically [...]

What do Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace have in common? They all want to set “guidelines” in order to maintain copyrights online.
Yes, all four (seems a strangely small group considering the proportions of the effort, no?) have joined hands to work to establish a commonly acceptable system which will purportedly “stop pirated material” from proliferating and generally protect copyright rules from widespread subversion.
And all four will fail at the job. Well, okay, maybe they will, maybe they won’t. To [...]

Months after Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers and effectively claimed a near majority of headline space for a good portion of the year because of it, MySpace’s CEO Chris DeWolfe and his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, stood upon the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce their company’s own intentions to do the very same.
MySpace plans to make an official debut when it’s finished polishing its new platform, a point it will reach in “a couple of months.”
There’s [...]

Rupert Murdoch & Co yesterday launched the Fox Business Network, a 24-hour venture meant to cut into CNBC?s dominant position in the world of cable business news. And the first-day reviews are in.
One published this morning, in the none other than the oh-so-anti-everything-to-do-with-News-Corp institution, The New York Times, laid it out plain and simple: The Fox Business Network is, well, a business network in the vein of Fox News. In other words, the serious stuff side note, and most [...]

It was bound to happen. All that attention lavished on Facebook, some of it warranted, some not. It eventually got under MySpace’s skin.
So the agitated crown keeper has decided to launch a PR offensive to combat what it clearly feels is ostentatious favoritism in the journalism space and especially among notable bloggerati for its less-ugly-but-still-not-purty foe. And in a way, the frustration is understandable. How dare Facebook fans and the folks that cover them in the “presses” write MySpace off [...]

You’ve seen the headlines. Declarations that Mr Murdoch is fiddling with the idea of selling MySpace off to Yahoo! for a 25% stake in the Net’s #1 portal. That would mean those at Newscorp thought their dastardly ugly (they of course likely think she’s beautiful, as does most any parent - particular a parent with a big financial interest in its kin) social network was worth just north of $10 billion. Putting aside numbers for a moment, though, a [...]