Tagged: Rupert Murdoch
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Myspace redesign coincides with Justin Timberlake’s latest single launch News
15.01.2013 Myspace has been given a facelift aimed at making music more discoverable. The new design currently features a giant image of investor and pop star Justin Timberlake on its...Categories: Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Murdoch shutters iPad news app ‘The Daily’ in major News Corp restructure News
04.12.2012 The Daily, an iPad-based newspaper that was the brainchild of both Rupert Murdoch and the late Steve Jobs to exemplify the virtues of the iPad as a revolutionary force defining...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
The Daily digital newspaper closing down on 15 December News
03.12.2012 Sluggish growth has killed digital newspaper The Daily. News Corporation will pull the plug on its product on 15 December, not even two years after launch on the Apple iPad. -
Leveson enquiry opens up possibility of a UK First Amendment News
29.11.2012 A nine-month investigation by Lord Justice Leveson into the UK hacking scandal that engulfed the Murdoch media empire concluded there was obvious collusion between News... -
Weekend news roundup: party invite goes viral; Murdoch and Zuckerberg in talks? News
09.07.2012 Some of the weekend newspapers' tech coverage reveals the annual Sun Valley summer camp for media moguls will see interesting opportunities arise for existing and new moguls,... -
Tech tweets of the week News
26.05.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Would being acquired by Facebook be in Pinterest’s interests? News
10.04.2012 Facebook wants to have Corn Flakes with you. It would also like to help you shop for nice clothes and accompany you to nice places, check out nice art, too. Sounds like the... -
SOPA: Obama admin wants to protect internet’s architecture News
16.01.2012 The Obama administration has weighed in on the side of protecting the internet’s openness and architecture in the controversial debate around the Stop Online Piracy Act. At the... -
Weekend news roundup News
16.01.2012 A look at tech coverage in the weekend newspapers, including the major trends sweeping CES 2012, media mogul Rupert Murdoch's take on SOPA and piracy, testing times for electric...Categories: Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Games/Entertainment, Hardware -
Red faces at Twitter – Wendi Deng account is a fake News
03.01.2012 There must have been red faces at Twitter today as its infamous ‘blue tick’ system of validating celebrities and other notables failed to spot that the @Wendi_Deng Twitter... -
Rupert Murdoch opens Twitter account News
03.01.2012 Rupert Murdoch only opened a Twitter account three days ago, but already the media mogul has attracted nearly 84,000 followers and has mostly tweeted about politics. -
Police arrest LulzSec hacker spokesman ‘Topiary’ News
27.07.2011 A 19 year-old from the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland – believed to be ‘Topiary’, the spokesman for hacker group LulzSec – is believed to have been arrested by UK... -
LulzSec to take WikiLeaks approach to sharing Sun emails News
21.07.2011 Hacker group LulzSec is understood to have abandoned plans to dump 4GB of emails from The Sun as well as members of the Royal Family and intends to follow the same approach as... -
Hackers attack Anonymous’ social network News
21.07.2011 It’s ironic. A social network for hackers appears to have been defaced by ... hackers! Hacker group Anonymous’ new social network Anon-Plus – created in response to being... -
LulzSec hackers deface The Sun and Times websites News
19.07.2011 News International websites for The Sun and The Times had to be taken down last night after notorious hacker group LulzSec posted fake news stories claiming the death of Rupert... -
News Corp withdraws BSkyB bid News
13.07.2011 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has withdrawn its bid to takeover the 61pc of BSkyB it doesn't already own. -
MySpace sold for a mere US$35m News
29.06.2011 Once the most promising property in the emerging social media scene, MySpace – which News Corp bought in 2005 for US$580m – has been sold to online ads giant Specific Media for... -
News International admits liability for tabloid phone hacking News
08.04.2011 News International has issued a statement today saying it will admit liability in some of the cases brought against it for phone hacking by its Sunday tabloid, News of the World. -
UK Govt under fire over Murdoch BSkyB deal News
14.03.2011 The British government has been criticised by media groups after it gave its lukewarm backing to the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. -
UK (sort of) backs News Corp's buyout of BSkyB News
03.03.2011 The British government accepted today News Corp's plans to buy full control of British Sky Broadcasting, on one condition: that it spin off its Sky News channel as an...