Microsoft might pay to exclusively index News Corp content?
Industry sources indicate that Microsoft and News Corporation are in talks for exclusive indexing of their content on the Bing search engine.
News Corporation has hinted that they might remove their content from Google search.
The deal could include popular online destinations like Wall Street Journal and [...]
Google, News Corporation, and Rupert Murdoch!
Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation has been in news for targeting Google and other web services which index news sites in their search engine.
Murdoch has already hinted that all of their web properties would go paid in the future.
Wall Street Journal is already mostly paid.
His latest [...]
Sunday Times to be tested for paid access by News Corp
Market sources say that the British newspaper Sunday Times would become the test pad for the paid access service being planned by News Corp on all their news properties.
Sunday Times currently share their website with The Times daily.
News Corp would shift Sunday Times [...]
News Corp. to make all their news properties pay only access
News Corp. has announced that they are going to start charging for access to their news sites from next year.
The Rupert Murdoch owned media giant has been critical of free access to news information online since some time now.
This means, web users would have [...]
Chase Carey leaving DirecTV for News Corporation
News Corp. has announced that they are hiring Chase Carey as their new deputy chairman, president and chief operating officer.
He would replace Peter Chernin. His appointment would be applicable from next month.
Carey is currently the CEO of DirecTV.
At News Corp, he would practically be the second most [...]
Now Time Warner against free content online!
We already know that News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch does not like the idea of free news content online.
Now, Time Warner has joined the group.
Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said during an investor conference that he does not like the concept where publishers provide their content for free [...]
Peter Chernin to step down as President of News Corp.
News Corp. has announced that their current President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin is leaving the company.
He is currently the second most powerful man in the company after Rupert Murdoch. He has been with the company since the last 12 years.
Chernin said in a [...]
Rupert Murdoch: Yahoo Microsoft deal unlikely
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has said in a statement that he personally believe that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is unlikely to happen.
He also added that News Corp. too is unlikely to get involved in any possible collaboration with the internet media giant.
Microsoft has made several offers to Yahoo including a [...]
News Corp. takes back their offer for Newsday
News Corp. has announced that they have now withdrawn their acquisition offer for Tribune’s Newsday newspaper.
Surprisingly, this announcement comes just days after Rupert Murdoch said that their talks were in advance stage.
They had offered $580 million for the deal.
A company spokesperson said that the deal was becoming too [...]
Wall Street Journal subscription could cost more in the future
Rupert Murdoch has earlier said that he wanted to make available more portions from the Wall Street Journal for non paying web users. The aim was to generate revenues from online advertising.
However, he has now confirmed that not everything on the web based news service would [...]
