Posts tagged news corp
Twitter urges Murdoch to be open
Nov 19th
Newspapers should become “radically open” if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has said.
Murdoch to remove News Corp’s content from Google ‘in months’
Nov 15th
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company’s content from Google’ search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.
Murdoch: We’ll probably remove our sites from Google’s index
Nov 9th
Murdoch claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via search have little value to advertisers. Asked by Sky News political editor David Speers why News hasn’t therefore made its sites invisible to Google, Murdoch replied: “I think we will.”
http://mumbrella.com.au/murdoch-well-probably-remove-our-sites-from-googles-index-11366
MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million
Nov 6th
The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/myspace-traffic-drop-costs-news-corp-about-100-million/
