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More Details On News Corp Incubator Slingshot Labs; $15 Million Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Feb 2008 11:53 PM PST

This news got buried in the whirl of News Corp’s talks with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on a stake sale deal: News Corp has formed a separate incubator company called Slingshot…

News Corp And Yahoo Talk On Combining Digital; 20 Percent Yahoo Stake; Outside PE Firm: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Feb 2008 01:05 PM PST

This has been proposed before by both parties and Rupert Murdoch even admitted to talking last year about combining some part of MySpace with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and seems those…

10-Q Watch: News Corp: Photobucket Acquisition Price: $300 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 11 Feb 2008 06:18 PM PST

News Corp filed its 10-Q quarterly report last week, and a hard number on Photobucket acquisition price, which wasn’t disclosed before but we reported on a ballpark price after speaking…

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MySpace Dev Platform Goes Live; Full Monetization For Developers - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 04 Feb 2008 10:00 PM PST

MySpace, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). which pre-announced last week that it will announce its developer platform this week, is doing it this week: it is launching tomorrow. This…

Earnings: NWS: FIM Revenue Up 87 Percent; $62 million From Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:32 PM PST

As noted in our earlier report, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) “other” segment generated $23 million in operating profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31. 2007—$22 million more than the same…

Slow-Going For Social Net Ad Revenues; Will MSFT+YHOO Spur It? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:10 PM PST

Despite the increasing popularity of social networking sites, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Fox Interactive and others are still having difficulty unlocking the platform’s potential ad revenue. Explaining its…

Earnings: NWS: Flat Profit Despite Double-Digit Segments; ‘Real’ Internet Profits—Thanks, GOOG - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Feb 2008 02:08 PM PST

News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31 was essentially flat, barely budging to $832 million ($0.27 cents per share) over $822 million ($0.26 per share) during…

@ SIIA: This Used To Be A Media Culture; Now It’s An “Engineer Culture” - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 30 Jan 2008 03:22 PM PST

The fascination with Rupert Murdoch was center stage during a discussion on old media vs. new media at the SIIA Information Industry Summit. When Tribune CEO and chairman Sam Zell’s…

MySpace Launching Its Developer Tools Next Month; New COO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Jan 2008 12:46 AM PST

MySpace, in an attempt to tap into outside developers (similar to Facebook), is launching its pre-announced developer platform on Feb 5th. Programmers and other companies will be able to develop…

MySpaceTV Will Distribute BBC Worldwide Globally; Promotes Berman To EVP, Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Jan 2008 05:21 PM PST

MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

MySpace to Spin Off Its Incubator Into A Separate Company; Financed By News Corp - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 20 Jan 2008 10:28 PM PST

In an otherwise unremarkable feature story in NYT about MySpace’s new plans, an intriguing piece of news buried towards the end: that MySpace is forming an incubator to gestate new…

Yahoo, NYT And MySpace Remain On Top Of The Charts: Confusing Slice Of The Stats Pie - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 17 Jan 2008 10:25 PM PST

Questions about the accuracy of online traffic data are well known, though new numbers never fail generate a discussion. A batch of new charts have been making the rounds, and…

Lights, Camera, Action: MySpace Debuts Celeb Channel - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:10 AM PST

MySpace has often touted its promotional value to celebrities. It now has a specific channel that collects much of its star power in one place: MySpace Celebrity, billed as an…

Citi Media: Peter Chernin, President/COO: News Corp.: No Economic Worries Here - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Jan 2008 01:20 PM PST

Facebook may be growing faster than MySpace and the threat of a recession looms. But Peter Chernin, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) president and COO is not worried. He outlined the…

Broadband Content Bits: Joost/NBA/PBS; Chicago Tribune; MySpace; Freemantle - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Dec 2007 03:41 PM PST

-- Joost: Two new agreements with two very different programmers: the NBA and PBS. With the NBA, Joost will run “Instant Classic” basketball games and video highlights for the remainder…

Thinking Of Online Video Ads? Here’s A Price List - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 17 Dec 2007 03:47 PM PST

The major online video sites offers a very simple choice when it comes to advertising rates: pay $90 CPMs on the high end or $10 to $20 CPMs on the…

More On Fox Digital Media: Buying Beliefnet, Expanding Mission - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 04 Dec 2007 06:47 PM PST

As we explained last night, Fox Digital Media is expanding its role within News Corp., (NYSE: NWS) starting publicly with the acquisition of Beliefnet completed Tuesday morning. FDM, led by…

Universal Music Restricting Music Streaming On Certain Sites - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Dec 2007 08:24 AM PST

Universal Music Group, the largest music label, has implemented a new online streaming policy for its artists: each song for its artists will be limited to either 90-second clips or…

@ UBS Media Week: FIM’s Michael Barrett: HyperTargeting Yields 50 Percent Premiums - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 03 Dec 2007 01:32 PM PST

Fox Interactive’s Michael Barrett kicked off his presentation at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference in a feel-good manner, talking up all of key players in the industry. But…

FIM’s Photobucket, Google’s Picasa Will Deliver Photos Over TiVo; Some In Full HD - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 03 Dec 2007 06:30 AM PST

Another step toward meshing video and photos on TV ... TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) subscribers with broadband-connected DVRs will be able to access and share photos from Photobucket, owned by FIM,…

Busy Week In NYC: UBS 35th Annual Global Media&Communications Conference - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 02 Dec 2007 10:03 PM PST

For the first time in four years, I won’t be spending a large chunk of early December in NYC hotel meetings rooms as media and tech execs make their cases…

Interview: Lee Fenton, COO, Jamba: Focusing On Europe, Music, Simpsons - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 Nov 2007 10:39 AM PST

News Corp and Verisign’s Jamba mobile content JV will base its CEO in Berlin, become MySpace’s m-commerce facilitator in six European countries and push its new mobile/desktop music store out…

Levinsohn: Fox Interactive To Broaden Its MySpace Ad Network Across News Corp., Other Companies - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 26 Nov 2007 01:09 PM PST

Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) is expanding its MySpace online advertising network to include other News Corp. media properties and to handle ad serving for other companies as well, FIM…

TV Networks’ Online Ad Inventory Unexpectedly Opens - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:57 AM PST

Thanks to rising online viewership and the nature of broadband audience agreements with advertisers, the major TV networks have a lot more advertising to sell for their streaming programming, TVWeek…

Online Show Quarterlife Gets Picked Up By NBC For Network Debut; Strike Workaround With WGA Possible - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Nov 2007 08:32 PM PST

It is a bit of a co-incidence, but I was talking to a Portfolio reporter this morning about a story he was doing on how TV networks are trying develop…