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more about #newscorp The Lab: Great article. Some commenters below have noted that Microsoft's role in this is unconfirmed but the article's point still stands: if Microsoft were ... more » Odin: Sigh. Damnit Giz, you're already well known for your blatant Apple bias and now you're posting downright anti Microsoft stories based on rumour and he... more » knightwhosaysnee002: Seeing Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch collaborate makes perfect sense. If you wait till 2012 when all windows machines transform into hellspawns and an... more » G.O.B.: Come on!: "This is from a company who's CEO recently told us that sales are more important than critical acclaim, preferring profit over better product." Shock... more » d_r_e: The fact that Microsoft would pay money to the King of Shitbags (Rupert Murdoch) so they can do business together just makes me sick to my stomach. more » nutbastard: wouldn't someone just make a search-engine-search-engine that aggregates results from all popular search engines?? more » Mikestan: Wasn't Ballmer recently telling investors that Microsoft has the potential to up the company's image with the youth? Destroy search engines, that wil... more » Michai: Thanks Bing for helping Google carry out the garbage. With Google's Fox free mode my searches will be even more streamlined! more » Xagest: You don't want to make a 1-to-1 comparison to their OS, but you say that Bing is great? I typed in "tear" for a picture, and I got a gallery of "vagi... more » MooglesInMyFace: Not sure how it's Microsoft's fault. If Murdoch wants to pull out from Google(assuming it is possible) wouldn't YOU as MICROSOFT say "Hey how about we... more » Nekrik: Google had a lot to do with creating this situation, you need to give credit where credit is due. more » cbandes: The whole concept baffles me. Telling google what it can and can't list is like telling rand mcnally that they aren't allowed to put your town on thei... more » dropdeadseven: So is Microsoft specifically paying FOX not to list on Google, or are they paying for FOX's content? If their paying for Google not to have it then ye... more » frigg: Thank god I remembered to save the card Eric Schmidt handed me at the Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat in Arizona last summer. I've already submitted m... more » Joe: Awww Brian... Blogs and YouTube are killing main stream media. News papers are going out of style and people are switching to watching their shows o... more » Mr.Affrox: This is bad news. For the average Joe, if it ain't on Google, it doesn't exist. more » balls187: Retarded. If you have valuable content, why the fuck would you want to let Google/MSFT make money off of it via Search/Ad Revenue? Also, [www.bing-v... more » Erik Jorgensen: Some of you crack me up. This is just normal business. All of the big news sites have been threating to sue Google for making money off their content.... more » Curves: Just goes to prove (yet again) that greed and selfishness can f*ck up anything, including the net. more » x40sw0n: Fundamentally this is a problem with the old-guard news outlets and in fact, Murdoch himself. Honestly I can't think of a more accurate model for Murd... more » -
#media
The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one. More » -
#search
The Definition of Evil: Microsoft's Search Wars Hurt Us All
Microsoft may pay Murdoch to delist from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world's content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell!
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#hulu
How a Paid Hulu Would Work
AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp's Chase Carey—that "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online"—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. He makes a good point: More » -
#hulu
Hulu's Free Glory Days Are Officially Numbered
Hulu, at the behest of its co-parent News Corp, is going to start charging for content in 2010. This is not so good, this here news. More » -
#hulu
Will Hulu Become a Pay Service?
Asked if Hulu would ever charge for content, Jonathan Miller recently said, "in my opinion the answer could be yes." Who, exactly, is Jonathan Miller? The Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, which owns 27% of Hulu. Ha ha, shit. More » -
#itrunsonhumanblood
Rupert Murdoch Investing In a Mysterious Color eBook Reader
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp potentate and noted evil person, yesterday announced his company is "investing in a new device that has a bigger screen [than the Kindle], [and] four colors," adding, "THE KINDLE MUST PERISH." More » -
#espionage
News Corp. Hires Hacker to Break Into Dish Satellite Network, Steal Security Codes for Pirate Cards
This is classic corporate espionage/sabotage at its finest. Dish Network is accusing News Corp.—which used to have a 39 percent stake in DirecTV and still provides its security tech—of hiring hacker Christopher Tarnovsky to break into Dish's network, steal the security codes, and use them to make pirated cards to flood the black market. It sounds insane, but Tarnovsky admitted in court he was paid James Bond villain style, with $20,000 cash payments mailed from Canada hidden inside "electronic devices." More » -
