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News Corps’ NDS allegedly leaked rival pay TV codes

Shane McGlaun, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

News Corporation has been linked to high-profile hacking cases in the past. New allegations have surfaced that a News Corporation company called NDS hired a hacker to dig up the set-top pay-TV codes of a rival in the digital smartcard business called ITV Digital. The allegations come from a man named Lee Gibling that operated website in late 1990s called the House of Ill-Compute and was also known as Thoic. Read The Full Story

News Corp’s Times newspaper accused of computer hacking

Mark Raby, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Just when the world was beginning to forget about News Corp's hacking scandals, a new investigation has been launched regarding the media giant's UK newspaper the Times. The Metropolitan Police Service in England is looking into reports that a reporter may have hacked into e-mail accounts. This of course comes after News Corp faced a humiliating probe into phone hacking last year. Read The Full Story

Murdoch blasts Google as “Piracy leader”

Chris Davies, Jan 16th 2012 Discuss [21]

Outspoken News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has launched a renewed attack on Google, calling it the "piracy leader" of the internet and accusing it apposing SOPA as it makes money off adverts shown around illegal content. Murdoch turned to Twitter for his rant, seemingly triggered by the Obama Administration's comments this weekend that it had concerns over the controls implicit in the Stop Online Piracy Act. Read The Full Story

News Corp drops bid to purchase BSkyB

Shane McGlaun, Jul 13th 2011 Discuss [2]

News Corp has been working to purchase the British pay-TV company BSkyB since last year. New Corp has now dropped its bid to purchase the British company after all three main political parties in Britain teamed up to call on Rupert Murdoch's company to cease its bid to buy the company. The loss of the deal is seen as a major blow to News Corps plans for expansion in the UK. Read The Full Story

The Daily subscription fees imminent; Western Europe next in line

Chris Davies, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

News Corp plans to begin charging for The Daily from next week, having been offering the iPad-only newspaper subscription-free since its launch back in early February. Jonathan Miller, News Corps' chief digital officer, confirmed the switch at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, reports The Telegraph, as well as announcing that Western Europe would get its own version of The Daily before the end of June 2011. Read The Full Story

The Daily Indexed bypasses News Corp’s iPad paywall

Chris Davies, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Back at News Corp's launch of its iPad digital newspaper, The Daily, editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo confirmed that, while HTML versions of articles would be posted online so that they could be shared from the app, there wouldn't be a web interface to access them. Unfortunately for them, developer Andy Baio has stepped in and addressed that, with his new - and potentially short-lived - site The Daily: Indexed. Read The Full Story

Murdoch: “This year and maybe next year belong to Apple”

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [9]

The Daily owner Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that News Corp will be looking to other tablets beyond the iPad, stating during the launch Q&A that "we would expect to be on all major tablets." However, while that's the intention, he says "we believe that last year, this year and maybe next year belong to Apple." Read The Full Story

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The Daily gets official: iPad app for “true news discovery”

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

News Corp has officially announced The Daily, an iPad digital newspaper that promises “true news discovery.” The app will be published 365 days a year, and include over 100 pages of news, lifestyle, entertainment, opinion and sports content together with original videos, 360-degree photos, infographics and more, all for just 14 cents per day

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iPad The Daily mag launch February 2 2011

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [3]

As tipped earlier this week, News Corp's The Daily digital-only publication is now set to launch on February 2 2011 in New York, with CEO Rupert Murdoch joining Apple VP of internet services Eddy Cue on stage. The iPad-specific newspaper is expected to make use of a new subscriptions API developed by Apple, which will allow for regular delivery of new content and periodic billing. Read The Full Story

News Corp “The Daily” delayed over iOS subscription API issues

Chris Davies, Jan 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Plans to launch Rupert Murdoch's The Daily iPad news system have been delayed, with News Corp confirming that the previously tipped date - January 19 - is now being pushed back "for weeks, not months." According to AllThingsD, the delay has been prompted by Apple's software engineers working on the new iOS subscription API. Read The Full Story

News Corp’s “The Daily” iPad App Landing January 19th

Evan Selleck, Jan 10th 2011 Discuss [0]

The talk about News Corp's The Daily application for the iPad has been a pretty constant piece of news for awhile now, with people guessing about the content therein, or trying to pinpoint the exact release date of the app. Others, though, didn't even think it was coming out. But, thanks to a new "coming soon" site dedicated to The Daily, we can probably safely assume that it's coming. And, according to Forbes, its launch date is only just a little off from that previous rumor we heard not too long ago. Read The Full Story