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Hackers place malware on News Corp sites

The websites of Australian News Corp publications the Herald Sun and The Weekly Times inadvertently sent malware... Read more

14 July, 2011 by Luke Hopewell

MySpace sold off in rumoured $35m deal

...sold to digital-media company Specific Media, which purchased the site from News Corp for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, News Corp... Read more

30 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
Cisco buys UK-based NDS for £3bn

Cisco buys UK-based NDS for £3bn

...the private equity company Permira, which has a 51-percent stake, and News Corp, which has the other 49 percent. News Corp, a customer of... Read more

16 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Apple investigated by EU over e-book pricing

...CBS Corp, a US company. HarperCollins is part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, a US corporation. Penguin is part of Pearson Group, of the... Read more

6 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MySpace cuts jobs following sale to Specific Media

...half its staff of roughly 450 as part of its sale by News Corp to Specific Media, according to a report. The redundancies were reported... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Tim Hornyak

The Daily newspaper launches into the iPad fray

...The Daily is now available to US iPad owners. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has launched The Daily newspaper app for iPad in the US... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

News International sites taken down in LulzSec attack

The hacker group has claimed responsibility for a major attack on The Sun and other web properties of News International Read more

19 July, 2011 by David Meyer

News Corp ponders MySpace sale or spin-off

...options during a companywide meeting on Wednesday, spokeswoman Rosabel Tao told Bloomberg. "News Corp is assessing a number of possibilities including a sale, a merger... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Steven Musil

NDS faces fresh claims over cracked pay-TV codes

...smartcard systems. NDS, which Cisco is in the process of buying from News Corp and the private equity firm Permira for the sum of Â... Read more

27 March, 2012

Facebook eyes news service, says report

...with a number of media companies including The Washington Post, CNN and News Corp's The Daily to cook up something called "Facebook editions", which... Read more

18 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Brown accuses News International of computer hacks

...to gather information about people. The debate had been called to discuss News Corp's bid for ownership of BSkyB, which the News International parent... Read more

14 July, 2011
The way of power:The world's most powerful people 1.0

The way of power:The world's most powerful people 1.0

...Bank of China, 12, Dmitry Medvedev, President, Russia, 13, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp., 14, Silvio Berlusconi and family, Prime Minister, Italy, 15, Jean-Claude... Read more

22 January, 2012

The Weekly Round-Up: Google+, MySpace and HP's TouchPad tablet contender

...different story. After buying MySpace for $580m some years ago, Murdoch's News Corp cut its losses this week and MySpace has been sold once... Read more

1 July, 2011 by The Round-Up
CO Ski 1.0.0

CO Ski 1.0.0

...we hope you find the app of value.Information provided by Mountain News Corp d/b/a OnTheSnow with their permission Read more

19 March, 2011

News Corp seeks investor in satellite operation

If there's any truth to the speculation that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp wants to join forces with an Internet or high-tech company... Read more

1 March, 2000 by Grant Dubois

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