By Adriana Lee |
News Corp. COO Chase Carey isn’t too pleased about the courts siding with Aereo, the startup that pipes broadcast television programming and DVR features via the Internet. All four of the major broadcasters and several TV stations are actively suing to stop the TV-over-Web company,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Once again the future of Hulu is uncertain as Disney and News Corp. both look to the future and want to take different paths. While Hulu ended 2012 on a high note when it comes to subscribers and revenue, it seems that two of the three…
By Sean P. Aune |
As promised, The Daily has ceased publication as of Dec. 15, and subscribers have been notified that they will be receiving refunds for their undelivered issues. It was announced earlier this month that The Daily – the tablet only news publication from Rupert Murdoch’s News…
By Sean P. Aune |
News Corp. is going to give up the ghost on its digital-only newspaper The Daily as of Dec. 15. Launched in early 2011, The Daily was a digital-only publication from News. Corp that cost only 99 cents a week. Rumors of issues have plagued the initiative almost…
By Roy Choi |
Sources close to a Hulu parent company have stated Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is without a contract. The source claims parent companies Disney, Comcast and News Corp are working on buying out the stake of the fourth owner, Providence Equity Partners. The buyout is…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rumors are circulating that three of the partners in Hulu are feeling out the possibility of buying out a 10% stakeholder. According to a report from Bloomberg, Walt Disney, Comcast and News Corp are looking to buy out the 10% stake of Hulu owned by Providence…
By Killian Bell |
Following recent cyber attacks on News Corp, Sony, and even the Pentagon, I’m sure you’re already aware of the “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous. Its next attack, named “Operation Facebook” and scheduled for November 5, promises to “destroy” the world’s largest social network and the…
By Sean P. Aune |
How the mighty have fallen. Former social networking champion MySpace has been in trouble for some time now, but it is doubtful anyone thought it was quite this bad. Purchased by News Corp. in July 2005 for $580 million, the site has been up for…
By Sean P. Aune |
Moving from rumor to hard fact today, Hulu is up for sale. ”Why?” seems to be the big question, and we can’t say as we blame anyone for asking that. It all started with a report from The Wall Street Journal that the company had received…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would appear that News Corp. has finally had enough with coddling MySpace and they’re set to cut it free as early as this Wednesday. The problem is, it doesn’t seem that a whole lot of people want it. Back in July 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s…
By Jack McGrath |
Today was certainly a hectic day in the world of technology to say the least. We’ve compiled a list of TechnoBuffalo’s top headlines for today to help you make sense of it all. 1. “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” Return to Hulu After being…
By Sean P. Aune |
News Corp. is definitely signaling that the time has come to sell off MySpace. During a question and answer session with the media after the release of its quarterly earnings report, News Corp. COO Chase Carey said of the company’s social network holding: The new MySpace has…
By Jack McGrath |
Today was certainly a hectic day in the world of technology to say the least. We’ve compiled a list of TechnoBuffalo’s top headlines for today to help you make sense of it all. 1. The Daily A collaborative effort between Apple and News Corp. to launch…
By Sean P. Aune |
News Corp., with the assistance of Apple, officially launched the iPad-only “newspaper” The Daily today. While The Daily had been talked about for some time, the official launch only came today at a press conference hosted by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in New York…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would appear that some people inside of free TV service Hulu want the company to charge you to catch up with episodes you may have missed. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that News Corp. and Walt Disney Co. – which own television networks…
By Jack McGrath |
Media conglomerate News Corp. has supposedly delayed the release of The Daily, an iPad-exclusive newspaper that is to cost $0.99 per week. It was supposed to be announced next Wednesday by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the San Francisco…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rumors have been circulating for some time now that Apple and News Corp have been in talks to start a new daily newspaper called the Daily that will be exclusive to the iPad tablet. When the rumors first popped up back in Nov. of last…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rumors are circulating that possibly by the end of this month, News Corp., which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, could be launching a new application solely for Apple’s iPad called Daily. If true, which it looks like it is, welcome to news consumption in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
>Some days you hear a story that sounds great … until you dig into it a bit deeper and then you realize it is so incredibly doomed for disaster that you want to run and find the person behind them and smack some sense into…
By Sean P. Aune |
Media moguls of all types are preparing to charge for their online content, but it seems that someone forgot to mention they should actually ask people if they are willing to pay for such content before they go dumping money into building their systems. It…
