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...of profits pre-IPO, but its long-term prospects are no sure thing. Fellow social network MySpace was bought by News Corp in 2005 for $580m, a deal seen for years as a coup. But now restructuring and retrenchment are the order of the day. In this article: Facebook, Google, Hollywood, MySpace, News Corp, and Microsoft |
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All things digital – all feeds - ATD | November 18, 2009
Done Deal: MySpace Buys Imeem For Up To $10 Million [MediaMemo]
...it's easy to see why the company sold: It had no choice. And it's sort of easy to see why News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace bought the company: It's hard to pay less for talent. Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997,...
In this article: Warner Music Group, MySpace, Imeem, News Corp, Accounts receivable, Forbes magazine, and Om Malik
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Independent.co.uk - Music | 7 days ago
Indie labels sign download deal
...and is soon to launch formally in the UK although surfers here can already browse the site. MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. "In the past three or four years, record companies have made several leaps of faith when it...
In this article: MySpace Music, Merlin, MySpace, Arctic Monkeys, EMI, Revenue, Itunes, and Recording Industry Association of America
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National Post | 4 days ago
News Corp. needs Google, says expert
...News site and its search engine. Google already has a US$900-million search and advertising revenue-sharing deal with News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, which owns the social networking site MySpace. The deal, signed in 2006, is due to...
In this article: Google Inc., News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Jay Rosen, Microsoft Corp., News site, Jeff Jarvis, Revenue, and The Times of London
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Will News Corp. shut out Google for a Bing bribe?
...the one they already use. BW's story also suggests that News Corp. hopes to pressure Google into giving it a better renewal deal on its expiring contract to place ads on News' fading MySpace social network.) Fifth, in my experience, the...
In this article: Google, News Corp., Bing, Microsoft, Rupert Murdoch, Financial Post, Google News, Danny Sullivan, and New York Post
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Wired: Epicenter | November 19, 2009
Ad-Supported Music Contracts Again, as MySpace Buys Imeem
...Buys Imeem Categories: Advertising, Media, Social Media, Startups, Vevo Watch News Corp's MySpace purchased streaming music competitor imeem for a bargain price reported to be in the ballpark of $8 to $10 million, but the lion's...
In this article: MySpace, Imeem, YouTube, Vevo, Ilike, News Corp, The Orchard, MySpace Music, Wired.com, and Facebook
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BusinessWeek Online | November 19, 2009
Is MySpace Buying Imeem?
...services is worsening. News Corp.'s (NWS) social networking site MySpace is close to clinching an agreement to purchase Imeem, an online music business started in 2003, a person familiar with the matter says. MySpace would pay about $1...
In this article: MySpace, Imeem, Revenue, MySpace Music, Pandora, Rhapsody, and Real Networks
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Yahoo! News | November 04, 2009
News Corp, Time Warner helped by movies, cable (Reuters)
...that News Corp also plans to keep control of Dow Jones Indexes, after reports that it was considering selling it. News Corp started turning MySpace into a music-oriented site after its rivals Facebook and Twitter eclipsed its popularity.
In this article: News Corp, Time Warner Inc, Rupert Murdoch, Revenue, Fiscal year, Travel Channel, Scripps Networks Interactive, Time Inc, and Cox Enterprises
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New York Post | November 12, 2009
Twitter usage falls for second month
...contrasted with a 2 percent increase for users of Facebook , the most popular social network. News Corp.'s MySpace, which ranks second among US social-networking users, fell 2.5 percent from the previous month. The Post is owned by News Corp.
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | November 12, 2009
Twitter’s users drop 7.9% in October
...more than double the amount a year earlier, ComScore said. News Corp.'s MySpace, which ranks second among US social networking users, fell 2.5 percent from the previous month. While Twitter's growth among Web users is slowing, it's...
In this article: Facebook Inc, MySpace, United States, News Corp, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey
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Description from Wikipedia:
News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp.) is one of the world's largest media conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch.
News Corporation is a publicly-traded company listed on the Nasdaq and the Australian Securities Exchange and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Formerly incorporated in South Australia, the company was re-incorporated into Delaware General Corporation Law after a majority of shareholders approved the move on 12 November 2004.
News Corporation's headquarters is at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.), in New York City, in the newer 1960s-1970s corridor of the Rockefeller Center complex.
Revenue for the year ended 30 June 2008 was US$32.996 billion with an operating income of US$5.381 billion. Almost 70% of the company's sales come from its US businesses. On 16 January 2009 the Government Accountability Office reported that News Corp has 152 subsidiaries in low-tax or no-tax countries, one of four companies to have more than 100.
- Name:
- News Corporation
- Type:
- Public: (NASDAQ: NWSA, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA)
- Location:
- New York City
- Founded:
- became a US Corporation
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- NWSA
- Industry:
- Broadcasting, Publishing, Media, Internet, Entertainment
- Products:
- Films, Television, Cable Programming, Satellite Television, Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Sporting Events, Websites
- Revenue:
- $32.996 billion USD (May 06, 2009)
- Net Income:
- US$ 5.38 Billion (2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 64,000 (2008)
- Motto:
- Creating and distributing top quality news, sports and entertainment around the world
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