Tag Archives : News Corporation

Cloud computing in the last year or so, has seen immense advancements and now this entirely online concept is being stretched to its limit with the introduction of an all new online music service called, Beyond Oblivion, that aims at tearing the fabric of possibilities for cloud based services and show the users, the potential of cloud computing. [...]

After revealing the launch of The Daily, Apple today announced the commencement of operations of its subscription service aimed at content providers in IOS applications from App Store, which can be used to simplify the process of obtain products such as newspapers and magazines by users iPads, iPhones and iPod touch. The service is the same offered [...]

Last November the U.S. media reported that Rupert Murdoch, head of the giant News Corp., and Steve Jobs, CEO Apple would release a journal exclusively for the iPad, The Daily. Now, the All Things Digital reports that the launch of the publication must be on 17 January and Jobs may be present in the showcase event of the newspaper. The central development [...]

The sale of applications for devices such as newspapers iPad, Apple is cannibalizing sales of physical newspapers, said James Murdoch, chief operating officer of News Corp Europe and Asia, on Friday. News Corp. closed the site’s free daily the Times of London, in June this year. The “Times”, its Sunday version Sunday Times and News [...]

MySpace has already been one day, one of the most powerful social networks, but with the rise of other sites, then fell into oblivion. The fact that the creators shook both men behind MySpace decided to relaunch it as a network of music and social entertainment. And to further strengthen the product, they decided to copy the look of other successful [...]

One of the biggest news agencies, News Corporation, has reportedly entered into talks with Internet big hitters, Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. in an effort to gain advertising space on one of the major social networking platforms, MySpace, since deal between Google and MySpace is poised to end soon. As per the existing deal between [...]

Users of the platform games Xbox 360 (X360), from Microsoft, might connect their consoles to a TV channel exclusively, live with 24 hours of original programming focused on games for X360. According to the site TGDaily, Microsoft was in talks with the tycoon Peter Chernin, former president of News Corp., about the viability of the experience of a TV [...]

The owner of the famous NBA basketball team, Dallas Mavericks and a highly accomplished billionaire entrepreneur, Mark Cuban addressed media personnel in a keynote speech at the AlwaysOn OnMedia 2010 conference in New York City and it was there that he gave a piece of his mind to Google and other news aggregators. He strongly believes that news aggregators [...]

James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and CEO of News Corporation censured the news channel BBC during the Edinburgh International Television Festival for offering free content in the internet, accusing it of threatening the independent journalism in United Kingdom. BBC is a public channel of news and, according to Murdoch, it would be hindering the [...]