Tag Archives : News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch is not one of those who give up easily. He is convinced that digital media is the future and despite some setbacks he is forging ahead creating new digital products and platforms on the way. The latest was the launch of The Daily, an iPad newspaper project in collaboration with Apple. It was a low key launch party at the Guggenheim museum [...]

News aggregation is one of the foremost activities on the Internet nowadays, as with the lightning fast speed of the 21st century life, there is seldom time for users to go through various websites and pick ‘n’ choose the news and topic they wish to be apprised about. Although there is a long list of aggregators on the web, yet they are only capable [...]

Ever since the electronic book reader, Kindle, from Amazon Inc. hit the commercial markets, hardware manufacturers and publishers have been scrambling to figure out a way to beat the Kindle and put up a new technology that would render the Kindle redundant. To achieve the same, five of the biggest names in publication in the United States, Time Inc., [...]

All right, so finally the world of search engines is going to be visibly shaken to is very core, if the highly speculated internet search deal between Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s comes through. In the latest Microsoft v/s Google saga, one of the oldest internet entities, Microsoft Corporation has been in intense talks with one of the biggest [...]

Since the announcement by the media mogul, Rupert Murdoch that, News Corp might be on its way of de-indexing its websites from Google search engine, Microsoft Corporation it seems has finally found a break that it was looking for. Reports have surfaced that, Microsoft is in talks with News Corp in an effort to persuade the media giant to allow Microsoft’s [...]

In a meeting of 300 media leaders in Beijing, dubbed as the World Media Summit, The Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley said, “We content creators have been too slow to react to the free exploitation of news by third parties without input or permission. Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred [...]