News Corp

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) signed an artificial-intelligence content licensing deal with News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) (NASDAQ:NWS) that will pay the media company up to $50 million a year, underscoring how aggressively Big Tech is now paying for journalism to help power chatbots and other AI...

The Murdoch family’s long-running succession battle has ended, with Lachlan Murdoch cemented as the new leader of Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire, including Fox News and News Corp. Fox News will remain unchanged, continuing its conservative direction as favored by...

Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors, especially when markets are near all-time highs. A media mogul was among the insiders making purchases this week. Some insiders were buying shares as others were selling them. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10%...

Gannett’s (NYSE: GCI) announcement last Tuesday that it planned to spin off its print business, including USA Today, into a separate company was only the latest of several recent media spinoffs. Here's a look at how the deal stacks up against the others. The Debt Question Gannett...

You might not be a fan of orcs, hobbits and adventures through fantasy lands but you have to give the newest movie in The Lord of the Rings franchise a thumbs-up after reading this weekend’s box office numbers. Before all of The Lord of the Rings fans object to the three-part Hobbit prequel...

According to the New York Times, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has ended talks with owners of Hulu to take a 25 percent stake in the content delivery service. Joint owners, Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), 21st Century Fox, and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), have been trying to unload Hulu for years. The...

PandoDaily reported Thursday that several sources with inside knowledge said a deal for DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) to acquire Hulu was “imminent.” The same sources said the selling price would be about $1 billion. The fact that Hulu, jointly owned by Disney (NYSE: DIS), News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) and...

Let’s start with the “what.” Aereo is a technology startup, backed by IAC/Interactive (NASDAQ: IACI) that streams over-the-air broadcast television signals to iOS devices, as well as browsers on Macs and PCs. It also works on the Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) TV device designed to bring Internet...

The good news is that U.S. television broadcast networks, namely The Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE: DIS) ABC, CBS (NYSE: CBS), News Corp.’s (NASDAQ: NWSA) Fox, and Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC, can expect advertising rate hikes of about six percent this week during the start of the important “upfront...

If you thought that the arrest of Julian Assange could mark the end of WikiLeaks, think again. Eyeing the international success (and mainstream hype) that boosted WikiLeaks' popularity, the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is exploring the idea of developing a similar site of its own. Bill Keller...