SYDNEY, Oct 21- Australia's biggest newspapers were expected to run front pages on Monday made up to appear heavily redacted to protest against recent legislation that restricts press freedoms, a rare show of unity by the usually tribal media industry. Mastheads from the domestic unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Australian Financial Review publisher Nine...
Oct 18- Facebook Inc's upcoming news tab will feature headlines from the Wall Street Journal and some other News Corp media properties when it launches in fall of 2019, the social network said on Friday. The WSJ, which first reported about the deal, said news publications Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, and Business Insider have also reached a similar deal with...
LONDON, Oct 16- About 150 mothers with babies and young children defied a police ban on climate protests to stage a "nurse-in" outside the London offices of Google on Wednesday, while activists launched a parallel protest at the premises of its subsidiary YouTube. The mothers gathered despite police banning protests by the Extinction Rebellion group in London,...
Fox Corp reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates, boosted by higher fees collected from cable and satellite operators and online distributors.
NEW YORK, Aug 7- Media company Fox Corp reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, boosted by higher fees collected from cable and satellite operators and online distributors. Revenue, which rose nearly 5% to $2.51 billion in the quarter, also beat Wall Street expectations of $2.47 billion. On Tuesday, Fox Entertainment said it...
Aug 7- Media company Fox Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, boosted by higher fees collected from cable and satellite operators and online distributors. Rupert Murdoch's newly spun-off Fox Corp debuted on the Nasdaq in March following the $71 billion sale of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's film and television assets to Walt...
SYDNEY, July 26- Australia said it would establish the world's first dedicated office to police Facebook Inc and Google as part of reforms designed to rein in the U.S. technology giants, potentially setting a precedent for global lawmakers. The move tightens the regulatory screws on the online platforms, which have governments from the United States to Europe...
SYDNEY, July 26- Australia said it would establish the world's first dedicated office to police Facebook Inc and Google as part of reforms designed to rein in the U.S. technology giants, potentially setting a precedent for global lawmakers. The move tightens the regulatory screws on the online platforms, which have governments from the United States to Europe...
SYDNEY, July 26- Australia said it would establish the world's first dedicated office to police Facebook Inc and Google as part of reforms designed to rein in the U.S. technology giants, potentially setting a precedent for global lawmakers. The move tightens the regulatory screws on the online platforms, which have governments from the United States to Europe...
LOS ANGELES, July 22- Director James Cameron on Monday handed over the baton for the biggest box-office movie of all time to the makers of "Avengers: Endgame" after it ended the 10- year record of "Avatar." The Marvel Studios superhero movie "Avengers: Endgame" at the weekend overtook the $2.789 billion record set by Cameron's 2009 sci-fi film "Avatar" to bring its global...
Also in Epstein's address book are supermarket mogul Ron Burkle, Chelsea Clinton, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and John Kerry, and media titan Rupert Murdoch, New York magazine noted.
June 20- Rupert Murdoch suffered from pneumonia about three weeks ago and is now recovering, CNN Business reported https://cnn.it/31HLfH7 on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The media mogul went to a Los Angeles hospital at the time, according to the report, which added it was not clear if he was admitted. He is now doing well and is expected to call...
RUPERT MURDOCH WAS NOW DOING WELL, IS ALSO EXPECTED TO CALL INTO A LONDON BOARD MEETING ON FRIDAY- CNN.
RUPERT MURDOCH'S PNEUMONIA OCCURRED NEARLY THREE WEEKS AGO; HE HAD GONE TO A LOS ANGELES HOSPITAL- CNN.
RUPERT MURDOCH, 88, RECOVERING AFTER PNEUMONIA- CNN, CITING TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER.
May 9- Wall Street Journal-owner News Corp reported a surprise quarterly profit on Thursday, driven by strong growth in earnings at its book publishing and subscription video services units. Revenue from book publishing rose about 6 percent to $421 million, and the segment's earnings before interest, tax, amortization and depreciation jumped 29 percent to...
Net income available to stockholders was $10 million, or 2 cents per share, in the three months ended March. 31, compared with a loss of $1.13 billion, or $1.94 per share, a year earlier. The company, controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, said revenue rose to $2.46 billion from $2.09 billion. Thomson Reuters Inc, the parent of Reuters News, competes with News Corp's...
LOS ANGELES, May 7- Walt Disney Co on Tuesday pushed back the release of James Cameron's sequel to box-office champion "Avatar" by a year, to December 2021, and announced debut dates for new "Star Wars" films starting in December 2022. With the sequel now scheduled for December 2020, Disney moved "Avatar 3" to December 2023, "Avatar 4" to December 2025 and "Avatar 5" to December...
LOS ANGELES, May 7- Walt Disney Co on Tuesday pushed back the release of science-fiction sequel "Avatar 2" by a year to December 2021 and announced it will debut new "Star Wars" films in December 2022, 2024 and 2026.. "Avatar," the story of a blue, humanoid race on a lush moon known as Pandora, is the highest-grossing movie in history with $2.8 billion in global ticket sales,...
LOS ANGELES, May 7- Walt Disney Co pushed back the release of science-fiction sequel "Avatar 2" by a year to December 2021 and announced it will debut new "Star Wars" films in December 2022, 2024 and 2026..
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