News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) beat estimates with profit of $890 million for the spring quarter, up 24 percent from $718 million in the same quarter last year. Revenues of $7.4…

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-- Fox Interactive Media: FIM has appointed Charlie Barrett as SVP-sales for IGN Entertainment. He will head up sales for IGN.com, GameSpy, Direct2Drive, RottenTomatoes and AskMen, among others. Prior to…

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Jeff King, the head of American Idol’s digital media efforts (formally VP & GM at Fox Interactive Media, Fox Branded Entertainment and Americanidol.com) has left and joined Simon Fuller’s talent…

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Read the post below first for the context, and then this: one thing that seems to be happening is that MySpace is now going full steam ahead into becoming a…

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Everyone and their mother-in-law now has advice for MySpace on what it should do in the face of rise of Facebook..Bear Stearns analysts Spencer Wang and Shubhashree Mukherjee came out…

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Earlier today we wrote about IAB’s efforts to standardize web video metrics. Now, news that Nielsen/NetRatings is planning a major shift in web metrics, moving, according to the AP, from…

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Now that the Interactive Advertising Bureau has settled its dispute over general audience measurement ratings with comScore and Nielsen/NetRatings, the organization hopes to develop an industry standard for counting the…

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Wendi Deng, the Chinese-born wife of Rupert Murdoch, finally has an official post within News Corp, as chief of strategy for MySpace’s China operation, reports Forbes.com, citing sources. She will…

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The FT is claiming a “scoop of interpretation” from an interview with MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, suggesting a change in approach to be more open to third-party developers a la…

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Advertisers need to be more creative when it comes to monetizing online video, panelists at MediaPost’s OMMA Video conference in New York agreed. And while pre-roll ads are unsatisfying to…

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As part of its continuing mission to outpace YouTube in video, MySpace is relaunching its 18-month-old video-sharing service in a new place and with a new name. According to the…

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-- Tribune Broadcasting: Rick Felty has been promoted to VP-digital media, a new post at the Tribune Company unit. Felty was VP-creative services. He is charged with directing the central…

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If Nikki Finke’s info is correct—and I’ve confirmed some of it—Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are asking for the kind of money that would put them in the top five…

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Just before Monday’s announcement of Terry Semel’s departure from Yahoo daily operations crossed the wire Monday, CNBC’s David Faber posted a speculative piece suggesting that Yahoo would be forced to…

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Fox Entertainment Group has tapped online TV distributor Brightcove to provide its networks and studio with ad-supported internet video channels. The pact will also give Fox the ability to target…

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During the FT interview, chairman and CEO Howard Stringer addressed Sony’s move to create its own short-form video content. Turns out Sony Pictures Television is on the verge of launching…

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MySpace China is urgently developing an instant messaging client that will incorporate video amongst other features. CEO Luo Chuan told Reuters the service must launch “quickly, as soon as possible”. …

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The worst-kept secret is official ... as Rafat wrote last night, News Corp. is admitting, I mean announcing, that FIM (NYSE: NWS) has acquired photo-sharing service Photobucket. The site will…

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Not quite sure what to make of this ... after acquiring 100 Spanish-language websites for $10 million, online advertising/lead generation company Marchex is partnering with Fox’s Latin American Channels to…

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Online content storage company Fabrik has secured $24.9 million in a fourth round. The financing was headed by 3i, which was joined by previous backer ComVenture. The funds are earmarked…

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MySpace is stepping up efforts to guard the site against copyright violations by introducing a new system designed to prevent users from reposting copyright-protected videos. “Take Down Stay Down”, as…

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An obvious thing to do: Fox, which is gearing up for TV upfronts, is luring SuperBowl advertisers in with a promise to give them a larger Web (read MySpace) presence…

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About 70 percent of Americans are participating in online social networks, according research commissioned by MySpace, along with Isobar and Carat USA. (Ed. Note: We removed the link to the…

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MySpace News finally went live this morning—beta, of course—and the first impulse is to shrug. One reason: the pedestrian design of MySpace itself. (News isn’t in the main site nav…

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As expected, MySpace is launching a social news service, imaginatively called MySpace News (not yet live,will launch later tonight sometime Thursday morning). The beta service will aggregate news content (an…

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