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Here’s What The Daily Is Telling Its Subscribers

Here’s What The Daily Is Telling Its Subscribers

By Chris Crum December 3, 2012 | 3 Comments

As previously reported News Corp. is shutting down The Daily, its experimental news app, as a standalone publication. As part of a restructuring of its businesses, parts of The Daily (including some staff) will be rolled into The New York …

Rupert Murdoch Tweets Scientology Is Evil Rupert Murdoch Tweets Scientology Is Evil
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Rupert Murdoch, who is no stranger to controversy, recently used social media to spark a big conversation about Scientology and whether or not it should be called a “cult”. The whole thing started with the breakup heard ’round the world …

News Corp. Board Approves Split Unanimously News Corp. Board Approves Split Unanimously
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The News Corp. Board of Directors unanimously approved the companies split into two separate entities last night after hearing presentations from financial advisors and chairman, Rupert Murdoch himself. The split was formally announced in a company memo this morning, and …

News Corp. and Murdoch Consider a Spin Off News Corp. and Murdoch Consider a Spin Off

Despite previous reservations by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, the company is contemplating a split of their news and film assets from their print publication and newspaper divisions. Currently News Corp owns 20th Century Fox film studio, Fox broadcast network …

Rupert Murdoch Congratulates Zuckerberg on IPO Rupert Murdoch Congratulates Zuckerberg on IPO

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch congratulated Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s IPO, and urged him to continue working. Murdoch, who in the past lamented a lack of civility on Twitter, still takes to the platform to project his varied musings. Here he …

Rupert Murdoch Courts Twitter With A Debate Question Rupert Murdoch Courts Twitter With A Debate Question

Rupert Murdoch, the man with world’s most wrinkly hands, is back on Twitter, trying to improve the level of discourse coming across his account, something he’s already complained about in recent tweets. To his credit, instead of further lamenting about …

Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter Struggles Continue Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter Struggles Continue
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Rupert Murdoch might be having trouble finding people who want to engage in highly intellectual and insightful discourse on Twitter, but that’s not stopping him from using the micro-blogging site for one of its most revered purposes: complaining. As you …

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As previously reported, Google has gone with a blacked out logo for SOPA Blackout Day (in case you haven’t visited Google yet today to see for yourself). The company put up a blog post titled “Don’t censor the web.” The …

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Rupert Murdoch is really getting into this tweeting thing. The other day he was talking about how his company “screwed up in every way possible” with Myspace, and now he’s blasting Google and Obama (presumably in reference to his administration’s …

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Rupert Murdoch is fairly new to the Twitterverse, but his tweets have captured a lot of attention in that short time. He’s out at CES, and has been offering quick little bytes of commentary about it. Here are a few …