Here’s an intriguing deal: News Corporation has bought a stake in music startup Beyond Oblivion. Who they? The company’s site describes it as “a radical, highly disruptive music service that combines the stickiness of a social network with unlimited life-of-device access to the largest music library on Earth…
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News Corp trails MySpace subscription music service
Could MySpace Music transition into a paid subscription service this year? News Corporation’s digital boss Jonathan Miller hinted yes, in his keynote interview yesterday at the MIPTV conference.
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Murdoch: ‘All media is going to go on to the iPad’
News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch is a paid-up member of the iPad fanclub, judging by his comments in an interview with his own Fox Business Channel. “All media is going to go on to the iPad, whether it be music or books or newspapers or movies, you’ll be able to get on your iPad… they’ll get better and better and you’ll be able to do more tricks with it.”
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News Corporation mulling Jamster sale
Remember the day when Jamba/Jamster was the 600lb gorilla of the mobile entertainment industry? Those days are long gone: since being acquired by News Corporation, Jamster has seen its core ringtone business fall off a cliff, while failing to capitalise on the mania for mobile apps.
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Executive clearout at Fox Mobile Group
Things aren’t looking good at News Corp’s Fox Mobile Group – the reorganised home for Jamba/Jamster as well as its other mobile content activities.
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What really went wrong at MySpace?
The Financial Times has an excellent feature outlining ‘the rise and fall of MySpace’, tracing the social networking giant’s decline from its peak (mega-bucks acquisition by News Corp followed by mega-bucks ad deal with Google) to its troubles this year (plummeting traffic, blood on the boardroom floor, missing ad targets with Google).
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MySpace loses chunk of Google search deal after missing targets
News Corp has revealed that MySpace stands to lose out on $100 million of its $900 million search deal with Google, due to falling traffic.
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Murdoch kicks back against demand for free online content
News Corp tycoon Rupert Murdoch clearly isn’t a paid up member of the freeconomics fanclub: “We intend to charge for all our news websites,” he said yesterday, following the announcement of his company’s Q2 results.
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Murdoch on MySpace: “I blame myself…”
If Rupert Murdoch is such a sharp media baron, how did MySpace get to be – in the words of its new CEO – “bloated” following its acquisition by News Corp?
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Advertising on the rise at MySpace, says News Corp
News Corporation has reported that revenues at its Fox Interactive Media unit rose 23% year-on-year to $225 million in the second quarter, although income fell to $6 million from $24 […]