company:news corp

Saudi Arabia may end Twitter anonymity
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-may-end-twitter-anonymity

Saudi Arabia may try to end anonymity for Twitter users in the country by limiting access to the site to people who register their identification documents, the Arab News daily reported on Saturday.

Il semble c’est la même conclusion logique que toutes ces mesures qui, en France, reposent sur la dénonciation de l’« anonymat » sur internet :

“A source at (the regulator) described the move as a natural result of the successful implementation of (its) decision to add a user’s identification numbers while topping up mobile phone credit,” Arab News reported.

Questions for News Corp over rival’s collapse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/news-corp-ondigital-paytv-panorama?CMP=twt_gu

Part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire employed computer hacking to undermine the business of its chief TV rival in Britain, according to evidence due to be broadcast by BBC1’s Panorama programme on Monday .

The allegations stem from apparently incriminating emails the programme-makers have obtained, and on-screen descriptions for the first time from two of the people said to be involved, a German hacker and the operator of a pirate website secretly controlled by a Murdoch company.

The witnesses allege a software company NDS, owned by News Corp, cracked the smart card codes of rival company ONdigital. ONdigital, owned by the ITV companies Granada and Carlton, eventually went under amid a welter of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the immensely lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.

Les quotidiens aux mains des industriels (Le Monde)
http://www.arretsurimages.net/vite.php?id=13038

"La France est le seul pays industrialisé, avec l’Italie de Silvio Berlusconi, où de grandes entreprises de presse appartiennent à des industriels, et pas à des groupes de médias. A titre de comparaison, le Financial Times est la propriété du groupe Pearson et le Wall Street Journal de News Corp, deux éditeurs de presse.

How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People
http://www.thenation.com/article/162670/how-rupert-murdoch-buys-friends-and-influences-people

One key factor must always be kept in mind when discussing Rupert Murdoch: he has a lot of money ($7.6 billion, according to Forbes) and makes even more for other people. Between 1977 and 2001, News Corporation outearned every other blue-chip company save Berkshire Hathaway and Walmart. And while money might not buy you love in America, it does buy a great deal of special favors and improper indulgences from powerful people.

It’s Time to Scrutinize Fox
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jul/30/its-time-scrutinize-fox
“Since the outbreak of the News Corporation scandal in Britain, journalists on this side of the Atlantic have been intently scrutinizing Rupert Murdoch’s American operations in the hopes of uncovering similar improprieties.”

Amid Murdoch scandal, Israel backers worry about muting of pro-Israel media voice | JTA
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/19/3088599/pro-israel-leaders-watch-warily-as-murdoch-defends-empire

Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to engulf the media empire of Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corp.

Murdoch’s sudden massive reversal of fortune — with 10 top former staffers and executives under arrest in Britain for hacking into the phones of public figures and a murdered schoolgirl, and paying off the police and journalists — has supporters of Israel worried that a diminished Murdoch presence may mute the strongly pro-Israel voice of many of the publications he owns.

“His publications and media have proven to be fairer on the issue of Israel than the rest of the media,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “I hope that won’t be impacted.”

Il faut sauver le soldat Murdoch.

The Sun Newspaper HACKED - TNW Media
http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/07/18/the-sun-newspaper-hacked/?awesm=tnw.to_1A20H
http://twitpic.com/5s9xee

#Lulzsec is back. #hack

MySpace: is this the beginning of the end? - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/myspace/8243301/MySpace-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end.html

The restructure, which will see the majority of MySpace’s depleting workforce reside in the US alone, as the London, Sydney and Berlin offices are left with a skeleton staff, is a very similar strategy to AOL’s final handling of Bebo, before selling the struggling social network on for a comparatively small sum to a venture capital fund.