All the stories tagged with news corp

Disney and Fox consider pulling content from Hulu?

01/27/2011, While Hulu is a pretty popular service, not everything might be plain sailing for the company as the WSJ is reporting that NBC Universal, News Corp and Walt Disney are “increasingly at odds” with Hulu’s business model and are worried [...]

News Corp iPad App May Be Delayed Till 2011

11/26/2010, Despite all the rumors going around regarding the News Corp iPad app, the latest rumor is that The Daily might not arrive until early next year, conflicting with the earlier rumors of a mid-December launch. Nothing has been officially confirmed [...]

Apple To Introduce Subscription Billing?

11/22/2010, We’re been hearing plenty of rumors regarding an iPad-specific publication from News Corp and now some additional tidbits have surfaced. According to reports, Apple is working on some new billing options for apps to allow subscription payments through the App [...]

News Corp says tablet publication is very, very near

11/17/2010, News Corp says that they are extremely close to rolling out a news publication that will be specially developed for tablet computers including the Apple iPad – straight out from James Murdoch’s mouth. It will be a tablet-only product that [...]

News Corp kills Alesia digital newsstand plan

10/22/2010, Murdoch’s News Corp has decided to kill off their rather glitzy “Digital Planet” newspaper app project that will target tablets, citing lack of interest and cost as the main reasons behind that action. What does this mean for the layperson? [...]

News Corp Purchases Skiff E-reader

06/14/2010, Looks like the folks over at News Corp decided that they could use their own e-reader, as it has announced the purchase of the 3G-connected Skiff e-reader from Hearst and also invested in Journalism Online. The Skiff platform is touted [...]

Microsoft Offering Money To de-Google Content (Rumor)

11/23/2009, It’s no secret that Rupert Murdoch isn’t too happy with Google making News Corp content or partial content widely available to everybody, so what would Microsoft have to gain for a potential deal with News Corp? Well, word on the [...]