News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's media behemoth, is the latest source of criticism of Google. Robert Thomson, the chief executive of the company -- responsible for the Times and the Sun in the UK as well the book publisher HarperCollins -- has written to the European Commission to complain that the search giant is "a platform for piracy". Thomson pulls no punches as he lays into Google, saying that the company was in the hands of a "cynical management" and was "willing to exploit its dominant market position to stifle competition". The letter, addressed to Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, is bitter… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'
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Exclusive: Key Murdoch editor was at Wall Street Journal Tech Live event at Laguna Beach last month along with top News Corp executivesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChristopher Dore lost his job... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-11-18 07:59:05 UTC ]
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Spotify launched its audiobook business just last month with 300,000 titles, but is now saying that Apple is engaging in "anticompetitive" behavior that is impinging the new business, the company wrote in a blog post. It said that Apple rejected its audiobook purchasing system three times due to... Continue reading at Engadget
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Deal would seal legacy with favoured heirs, but markets question whether companies should merge in the first placeThis week’s 200th anniversary soiree for the Sunday Times gathered some of the biggest names in media at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-21 14:56:58 UTC ]
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Merger would combine Fox News and TMZ with newspaper and online news operations, almost a decade after they splitThe two parts of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire are discussing a merger nearly a decade after they split.The merger would combine Murdoch’s Fox News and TMZ assets with News Corp’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-15 01:01:11 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s publishing and media giant attributes record profits and revenue to acquisitions and digital transformationRupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has almost doubled its profits in 2021/22 to a record $US760m ($A1.1bn).The US-listed company owns News Corp Australia, as well as... Continue reading at The Guardian
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If you use Amazon’s Kindle app on Android, you may have noticed the software doesn't offer the option to buy and rent ebooks or subscribe to the company’s Kindle Unlimited service anymore. Amazon announced the change last month and more recently began notifying customers of the move via email.If... Continue reading at Engadget
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Hacking of emails at Murdoch company raises fears for safety of journalists’ confidential sourcesJournalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have had their email accounts hacked in what the company believes was an espionage operation linked to China, raising fears for the safety of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-02-04 14:17:42 UTC ]
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Fox News boss has made few public comments about ex-president who was championed by many of the network’s commentatorsFox News boss Rupert Murdoch has said Donald Trump should stop focusing “on the past” in a rare public rebuke of the former US president.On Wednesday addressing the annual... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Robert Thomson says media empire’s newspapers have a common ‘philosophy’ and denies they have performed a backflip on climate change in AustraliaGet our free news app;get our morning email briefingThe idea that Rupert Murdoch influences Australian elections is a “myth” and far removed from the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-22 04:46:20 UTC ]
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New York-based boss of News Corp set to be asked about private meeting with Scott Morrison and company’s new campaign for climate actionThe global head of Rupert Murdoch’s empire, Robert Thomson, will appear before the media diversity inquiry next week to answer questions about the dominance of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-14 04:56:21 UTC ]
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Foxtel cannibalisation continues with News Corp adding news service Flash to streaming apps Binge and Kayo. Plus: newshounds or booze hounds?Rupert Murdoch may have turned 90 this year but his news empire continues to grow. A week after announcing a new UK TV channel, TalkTV, and a Sky News... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-24 03:27:25 UTC ]
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A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixerThe Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs in an effort to undermine the ABC.Like the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-10 02:44:13 UTC ]
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The media tycoon’s outlets often give voice to ardent deniers of climate science, backers of fossil fuels and opponents of net zero. Is that all about to change?Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingNews Corp Australia, seen by many as the nation’s most enduring purveyor of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-08 06:21:19 UTC ]
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Since January, when Marty Baron announced his retirement as editor of the Washington Post, the media beat has hummed with speculation about his replacement: Would it be an internal candidate? Or one of a bevy of editors from the New York Times? Or Ben Smith? So it was impressive yesterday when... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is buying Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s book-publishing division, with titles by J Continue reading at ABC News
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News Corp is the largest media company to sign agreement with Facebook since laws passed by Scott Morrison’s governmentRupert Murdoch’s News Corp says a landmark three-year agreement with Facebook to pay for its Australian content will transform the terms of trade for journalism.Facebook has... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-03-15 23:55:55 UTC ]
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News Corp will receive ‘significant payments’ to feature news outlets in Google’s News ShowcaseGoogle and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have signed a multi-year partnership that will lead to the search engine paying for journalism from news sites around the world, including the Wall Street Journal,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-17 17:11:57 UTC ]
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a suite of executive orders that transformed US climate-change policy. He mandated a pause on new oil and gas leases of federal land; instituted a major push to replace gas vehicles in the federal fleet with electric ones; directed agencies to eliminate... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-01-29 13:29:22 UTC ]
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Former rivals to star in Leveson-style inquiry into mogul’s near-monopoly of the country’s mediaIn high public office, both men lived and died at the word of the world’s most influential media mogul, Rupert Murdoch. But now two former Australian prime ministers are at the vanguard of a campaign... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-22 07:30:15 UTC ]
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News Corp c.e.o. Robert Thomson has said that it would be a "serious antitrust issue" for the industry if Bertelsmann were to acquire Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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