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Recently-disbanded hacking collective LulzSec, who made waves this summer by hacking high-profile organisations such as the FBI, Sony and the US Senate, have apparently reformed to join the backlash currently engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Oh how the mighty have fallen. One-time king of the social networks, MySpace, has finally been sold by owner News Corp for a rather paltry (rumoured) $30 million to advertising firm Specific Media. The amount is less than a third of the $100 million News Corp were hoping to recoup with the sale of the iconic social network, which paved the way for current social supremo Facebook.

In News Corp.'s quarterly earnings call yesterday there was good and bad news for the media giant - although mostly bad. TV revenues grew, movie revenues were reasonable, however Murdoch's online division, which includes the likes of MySpace and The Daily, lost a massive $165 million in the first three months of the year.

Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) has filed a lawsuit against Viacom Inc. (VIA) over content it says it has the right to program on mobile devices like Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad.The cable operator launched an app for the iPad on March 15 and has...

I've been fairly critical of Rupert Murdoch's new digital newspaper The Daily, both over the ludicrously large investment News Corp. has made in the property, and the subsequent missteps in terms of social integration and target market.

Just a short while after Apple and News Corp. announced their collaboration to produce a tablet newspaper called The Daily, Yahoo has announced its new publishing platform, which it calls Livestand – a digital newsstand for tablets and mobile phones.

It looks as though the long, torrid saga of News Corp and MySpace may finally be coming to an end. News Corp COO Chase Carey has given a long-overdue indication that they are looking to cut-and-run from the flagging social network.

Today at the Guggenheim Museum in a snowy, cold New York, the re-animated corpse of Rupert Murdoch and Apple's Eddy Cue launched their iPad-only newspaper, The Daily.

The first all mobile newspaper has arrived. News Corp. (NWSA) formally introduced The Daily, designed exclusively for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad, at an event in New York City today."New times demand new journalism," Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., said at the...

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News Corp. (NWSA) has sold its Fox Mobile Group unit to Jesta Group for an undisclosed sum. The sale marks a yearlong exit from many of News Corp's digital media businesses and MySpace could be next.The business will be renamed Jesta Mobile Holdings with...

New Corp. is reportedly laying off staff almost three months after it first confirmed plans to sell its mobile business all together. Fox Mobile is cutting around 75 employees, of 15% of its staff in Germany, and making cuts in other markets as well,...

In what could see the coming together of two of the scariest media empires in the world, rumours reach us that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Apple have been secretly collaborating on a tablet-based newspaper called The Daily, and it's set to launch early next year.

Greg Clayman, the executive in charge of digital distribution at Viacom Inc. (VIA), has been lured away to run business operations at News Corp.'s (NWSA) new digital news organization.All Things Digital got access to a memo from MTV Networks announcing Clayman's exit as EVP...

News Corp. (NWSA) is gearing up to invest $30 million to $40 million in a new national news organization with a heavy focus on mobile, The Los Angeles Times reports.The new venture will draw content from a dedicated editorial staff, but also could pull...

The mobile unit at News Corp. (NWSA) has apparently become such a drag on the company that it's now willing to part ways with the business after four years in the space.During a call with investors, News Corp. COO Chase Carey said the company...

UrbanWorld Wireless added new distribution partners for both its on-deck and off-deck offerings. The Los Angeles-based content provider inked a deal to offer its UDub!MNews from the deck of Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Nextel Corp. The offering, which is available to Boost's...

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AOL L.L.C. last week became the latest Internet player to bet big on social networking, agreeing to plunk down a whopping $850 million for Bebo.com. But turning Bebo's impressive online and mobile traffic into dollars could be a challenge.While MySpace and Facebook have drawn...

Jamba said it will be the first digital retailer to offer music unencumbered by digital rights management (DRM) software under a deal with record label EMI.A joint venture between News Corp. and VeriSign Inc., Jamba said it will distribute an undisclosed number of DRM-free...

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network launched an on-device portal allowing users to access online content from Microsoft Corp.-based Windows Mobile-enabled devices.The downloadable application, which was developed by Action Engine, delivers news, videos and streaming podcasts from WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com and Barrons.com. Windows Mobile is...

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Wireless users will soon have yet another way to access the popular MySpace.com social networking site: an ad-supported mobile Web site from Fox Interactive Media.The announcement coincides with the launch of several other ad-supported mobile Fox sites, including IGM, FoxSports.com, AskMen and movie review...

Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.'s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew will upgrade infrastructure in stations, tunnels, and other buildings to migrate the railway's radio system from an 80 MHz trunk...