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News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.

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News Corp. net profit up on movie, cable TV showing

Global media giant News Corp. posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday as strong results from its movie, cable television and book publishing divisions offset a newspaper slump.

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News Corp. exec sees Hulu charging fees for access

(AP) -- Hulu, the free online video site where television shows and movies can be watched in their entirety, will start charging fees at some point, one of its owners said.

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Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price

(AP) -- CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.

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Online payment startup Zuora wants to rescue newspapers

Tien Tzuo on Wednesday called on fellow technology entrepreneurs to join him on a quest to rescue newspapers that are dying as their readers get stories free on the Internet.

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Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees

(AP) -- The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition.

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News Corp. seeks stake in Saudi media company: WSJ

News Corp. is in talks with Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to take a stake in Rotana Media in what would be its first major investment in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

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News Corp. seeking to form online news consortium: LAT

Media giant News Corp. is holding talks with other newspaper publishers on forming a consortium that would charge for news online and on portable devices, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

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News International plans to shut free London paper

News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corporation, said Thursday it planned to shut thelondonpaper, the group's loss-making freesheet for London commuters.

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News Corp tests charge-for-content policy at Sunday Times: report

Britain's Sunday Times newspaper will be the testing ground for News Corporation's new policy of charging for Internet content, a report said Friday citing industry sources.

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News Corp. plans fees for newspaper Web sites

(AP) -- Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start coughing up fees to read the news within the next year, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said.

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DirecTV CEO in talks to join News Corp.

The chief executive of DirecTV Group Inc. is in talks to return to News Corp. to be Rupert Murdoch's second in command.

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Future of newspapers is digital: Murdoch

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be 10 to 15 years before readers go fully electronic.

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Murdoch leads charge to get readers to pay online

As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.

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News Corp. posts flat third quarter

Media giant News Corp. reported a flat quarterly net profit of 2.7 billion dollars on Wednesday as one-time items helped compensate for a slide in advertising revenue.

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