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MSNBC
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Apple Inc and News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent movies through Apple’s digital iTunes Store, media reports said on Thursday.
The agreement will allow rentals of Fox’s latest DVD releas..
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Financial Times
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Google is engaged in a frantic round of negotiations aimed at persuading traditional media companies to supply their content to YouTube, the video website it bought last month for $1.65bn, and ward off a potentially crippling round of lawsuits...
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BusinessWeek
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Can the fledgling microblogging service become a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook—or will it be gobbled up?
It's easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter, the microblogging rage. "My nose is leaking," writes someone called Zapples, "..
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MSNBC
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News Corp. says its net income more than tripled in the latest quarter to $2.69 billion thanks to a boost from a stock exchange with Liberty Media Corp.
Rupert Murdoch’s New York-based media conglomerate said Wednesday it recorded a gain of $1.7 bill..
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BusinessWeek
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Forty years after the debut of Sesame Street, it is once again time to overhaul the laws governing children's media
Four decades ago, Joan Ganz Cooney and her colleagues created the gold standard for using mass media to educate children when they found..
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BusinessWeek
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The Liberty Media boss expects regulatory approval for the acquisition soon, and he's gearing up for an assault on Comcast and Time Warner
Cable pioneer and billionaire media investor John Malone could soon be back in the business of delivering TV sign..
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BusinessWeek
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Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later
Blogs were the heart of the story in 2005. But they're just one of the tools millions can use today to lif..
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Los Angeles Times
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NBC Universal put out a welcome mat for a new girl posse Tuesday by agreeing to pay $925 million to buy Oxygen Media, the independent cable television channel for women launched seven years ago by talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, cable programming pioneer Ge..
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BBC News
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has won his battle to buy US media giant Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
His News Corporation firm has secured the deal for $5.6bn (�2.7bn), or $60 a share - a 65% premium to Dow's share price before the b..
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CNN
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Rupert Murdoch is known for getting what he wants and for seeing value where others don't -- or haven't yet. At 76, he's one of the longest-living empire builders in the media industry.
Starting out with newspapers in his native Australia, Murdoch late..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Carlyle, the US private equity giant, is considering axeing the Virgin brand name if it takes over UK cable group Virgin Media. Such a move would sever the media company's connection with Richard Branson, and pave the way for a rapprochement with Rupert M..
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BusinessWeek
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Why cable companies beyond Virgin Media are popping up on the radar screens of private equity firms
Not so long ago, the field of cable TV was a small-time business. Dozens of local networks, often run by families—think John Rigas' Adelphia Communica..
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Washington Post
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Carlyle Group, a District-based private-equity firm, is in the early stages of discussions to purchase Virgin Media, according to a source familiar with the talks.
The Virgin Media deal could reach nearly $20 billion, according to the source who spoke..
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CNN
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Defense lawyers at Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial wrapped up their case on Tuesday after the one-time media baron and three co-defendants turned down a last chance to take the stand in their own defense.
The defense presentation, which lasted less..
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Washington Post
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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, has effectively put the media company up for sale, saying last night that it would entertain purchase offers, including an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch that was turned down one month ago.
In..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A private equity consortium is considering a $15bn (£7.5bn) bid for Virgin Media, the cable firm where Sir Richard Branson is the largest shareholder.
Formerly known as NTL/Telewest, the cable group has been at the centre of a dispute with BSkyB after..
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BBC News
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Defence lawyers in the trial of media baron Lord Black have tried to show that millions of dollars of alleged illegal payments were honestly earned.
Lord Black has been accused of stealing $60m (�30m) from Hollinger International while he was chief e..
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FOX News
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Rupert Murdoch hasn't shrunk away from fights as he built News Corp. (NWS) into a global media empire. But his surprise $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co. (DJ), publisher of The Wall Street Journal, faces tough sledding after the company's controlling sha..
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BusinessWeek
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On the heels of Google's DoubleClick deal, Yahoo! is forking over $680 million for Right Media. Why are ad exchanges and networks suddenly the belle of the ball?
Days after Right Media Chief Executive Mike Walrath moved into his Park Avenue office, he..
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BusinessWeek
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Former media titans such as Eisner and Bochco are finding lots to like as they produce new shows aimed at social networking's explosive growth
The acting is wooden, the monologue darn near nonexistent. But there's something mildly addicting about Prom..
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