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The Murdoch Effect: Bloomberg-New York Times Merger Thoughts?; Civic Duty To Save NYT - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 20 Apr 2008 01:20 PM PST

So Newsweek is reporting, though details are very sketchy and preliminary for now: it reports that Michael Bloomberg’s friends are encouraging him to explore the idea of a Bloomberg-New York…

Dow Jones Acquires Business Networking Tool Generate - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 08:58 AM PST

Dow Jones has started its acquisitions again, now as part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). it has bought a much-talked about company in the business social networking space: the Boston-based…

Fox, Paramount Testing New-Release Downloads At iTunes - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:30 AM PST

Something unusual happened for iTunes users when Juno made its DVD debut this week: the Fox movie was also for sale as an iTunes download for $14.99 as the News…

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Asian Expansion: MySpace Korea, AOL Hong Kong - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:31 PM PST

MySpace went live in South Korea today—and head to head with some of the toughest social network competition out there. Forget Facebook, as I heard and saw during my too-brief…

Fox Fusion Attempts To Boost Cable News Sites’ Ad Revs, Traffic With Help From WSJ Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:37 PM PST

Just in time for next month’s TV upfront, Fox will begin unveiling a new ad sales program designed to match up media buys along its cable channels and online news…

Yahoo Board To Meet Friday; Solo Microsoft Still Seen As Odds-On Favorite - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:47 PM PST

Today was almost eerily quiet after yesterday’s rapid-fire flurry of news… However WSJ is reporting that the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board is set to meet tomorrow (Friday) to discuss Microsoft’s…

MySpace And ShineReveille Partner On International TV Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 12:57 PM PST

MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…

Markets React To Microsoft-Yahoo-Google-News Corp.-AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:26 AM PST

Who knows how the market will ultimately judge the latest news, but the snap reaction goes something like this. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is an obvious beneficiary, up about 2.6 percent…

Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React To The Latest Twists - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:00 AM PST

With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analysts were debating “what price” a deal would…

Microsoft and News Corp in Talks on Joint Bid For Yahoo; Possible Higher Bid; MSN+YHOO+MySpace - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 06:50 PM PST

This just gets better and better by the second: now Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS) are in talks about combining forces to bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO),…

Broadband Content Bits: MySpace Latino; MSNBC Streams; Nielsen’s VideoCensus; CelebTV-thePlatform - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 08 Apr 2008 05:14 PM PST

-- MySpace builds out new Hispanic sites: The Fox Interactive social network says it is building on the bilingual MySpace Latino site it launched last year with eight new communities…

Fox Buying Majority Of UK Video Ad Outfit Utarget - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 12:00 AM PST

Fox’s year-old .Fox Networks web ads operation is buying itself more video advertising clout, taking a 56 percent stake in UK video ad platform Utarget. The eight-year-old Windsor-based outfit has…

Inside The Deals: MySpace Music JV Has One Thing In Its Favor—Authority - 0 Comments
Posted By Steve Rosenbush - Fri 04 Apr 2008 04:41 PM PST

When it comes to management, joint ventures such as the MySpace Music initiative unveiled on Thursday pose significant challenges. Getting competing interests to cooperate can be like imposing orders on…

New Fox Interactive Group Moves Into Yahoo Center In Santa Monica - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 10:17 PM PST

We had heard rumors to this effect earlier in the year, and some gossip and speculation about whether Fox Interactive could get the rights to rename the *Yahoo* Center in…

Fox Interactive Media Restructuring: Memo From Peter Levinsohn: Optimizing Monetization - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:45 PM PST

Fox Interactive scrambled to send out a staff memo, and we have it below. It comes from Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS). This is the pertinent…

FIM Reorganizes: Barrett Out; Bain President Of New FIM Audience Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 Apr 2008 08:26 PM PST

Major changes at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), all centered on money ... Michael Barrett is leaving rather than change roles after his job of chief revenue officer was eliminated…

HarperCollins To Establish Internet-Focused Unit; Wants To Offload Risk: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 03 Apr 2008 06:54 PM PST

Publisher HarperCollins plans to launch an internet-focused unit that will eschew author advances, according to a somewhat odd WSJ report. Besides eliminating advances, the currently unnamed unit won’t accept returns…

Updated: MySpace Music Deal With Three Labels En Route; Expected Thursday - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 02 Apr 2008 03:47 PM PST

MySpace has scheduled a call this morning at 11 a.m. eastern with Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO, MySpace, and Amit Kapur, COO, MySpace. No music execs are listed—and in keeping…

Ad Industry Roundup: Job Numbers; Conde Nast; NBCU/Fox; AzoogleAds; Modernista; McDonald’s; Omnicom - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:51 PM PST

-- Online jobs post first year-over-year decline: Online job vacancies posted an unusually poor showing last month, as the Conference Board said listings fell slightly by 21,200 from March 2007…

Latest Report Adds Kushner To The List Of Potential Newsday Suitors - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:27 PM PST

Add Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer, to the pool of potential suitors for Newsday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Those already reported to be interested include…

Microsoft Decides Not To Bid Against Itself; No To Price Rise on Yahoo: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2008 10:41 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), not in any particular mood to bid against the only competition it has --itself-- has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO),…

MySpace Adopts Chinese Name ‘Juyou’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Pearl Research - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:00 PM PST

MySpace.cn has confirmed its Chinese name to be Juyou, which means getting friends together. Former MSN China CEO Luo Chuan joined MySpace in 2006 and released the first test version…

WSJ Staff To Move Into News Corp HQs?; Online Model Set For Now - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 26 Mar 2008 09:40 PM PST

The new Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton gave his first public interview to The Australian, and though no revelatory points, some reiteration of current policies, and a hint…

Broadband Content Bits: Showtime; iTunes-Starz; Yahoo Show; Fox’s ‘Rookie’; Sony; NYT Style Mag - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 26 Mar 2008 10:47 AM PST

-- Showtime’s The Tudors to premiere across video sites: As Showtime’s historical drama series The Tudors gets ready to kick off its second season on Sunday, the CBS (NYSE: CBS)…

Yahoo Announces OpenSocial Support; Joins Google, MySpace To Form Non-Profit Foundation - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 25 Mar 2008 07:06 AM PST

An interesting turn of events on the OpenSocial scene, with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) agreeing to embrace the Google-backed social app distribution platform. Yahoo, Google and MySpace have agreed to form…