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Er, Ofcom, please tell us more about Murdoch's £11.7bn Sky bid
The British government's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has written to Ofcom asking for extra input before Culture Secretary Karen Bradley decides whether to approve Rupert Murdoch's £11.7bn Sky buyout bid. The DDCMS went to the telecoms regulator "seeking further clarification in relation to representations …
Murdoch will get EU green light for full Sky takeover – reports
Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox will gain EU clearance for its full takeover of Sky, according to sources who whispered to Reuters. The newswire reported that two people familiar with the matter told it that EU regulators will approve the £18.5bn takeover. Back in December shareholders agreed the takeover of the British pay …
David Hockney creates new Sun masthead. Now for The Reg...
LogowatchArtist David Hockney has redesigned the masthead of The Sun newspaper – and in the spirit of free expression and artistic endeavour we want you, dear Reg readers, to join us in honouring this beacon moment in the cultural life of Great Britain. 79-yr-old Hockney put finger to iPad on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's super soaraway …
Sky fattens up broadband subs as it hovers above Fox's open mouth
Sky increased its number of broadband subscribers by 140,000 to more than six million households in the first six months of its financial year. The business also announced it will launch a Sky TV service in the UK without the need for a satellite dish "opening up the full Sky TV service to millions of customers who either …
Rupert Murdoch wants Google and chums to be g-men's backdoor men
In BriefRupert Murdoch has come to the aid of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, urging Google, Apple and other tech giants to change their stance on encryption. Graham, who is a presidential candidate for the GOP alongside blowdryer-favouring asshat Donald Trump, once again railed against Silicon Valley players and called for them to …
Get 'em out for the... readers: The Sun scraps its online paywall
Rupert Murdoch's flagship British tabloid, The Sun, is to abandon its paywall in search of greater web traffic as it seeks to compete with big online news hitters such as the Daily Mail. According to the Guardian, the move was set to be officially announced on Friday and implemented by the end of November. Back in July 2013, …
Rupert Murdoch rips up his own fondleslab foundry
Rupert Murdoch's unerring nose for a future tech market failure has struck again, with the company writing down its Amplify education business. Amplify, created out of the acquisition of Wireless Generation, and was supposed to corner the educational market. News acquired it for US$360 million in 2010, and subsequently poured …
Competition probe opens door to Canal+ Spain for Rupert Murdoch
AnalysisIt is over six months since Telefonica tabled its bid to buy 56 per cent of Spain's pay TV operator Canal+ from the Prisa Group on top of the 22 per cent it already owned and at last it is facing the competition probe we predicted it would at the time. The other 22 per cent owned by Mediaset, the Italian commercial broadcaster …
Sky: We're no longer calling ourselves British. Yep. And Broadcasting can do one, too
BSkyB has ditched the words British and Broadcasting from its name, after the media and telecoms company completed its takeover of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland yesterday. From now on, it will simply be known as Sky, but shareholders will be asked to approve the name switch at the firm's AGM on 21 November. Its company stock …
Rupert Murdoch outs self as iPhone 6 fanboi
Rupert Murdoch has outed himself as an Apple fanboi. In one of the mogul's regular and oddly-contextless tweets, Murdoch admits to having recently acquired an iPhone 6 after first making some very anodyne comments on the fact that old spacecraft scarcely packed enough computing power to play a decent game of Tetris. …
Google hits back at 'Dear Rupert' over search dominance claims
Google has penned a response to News Corp's accusations that the web firm is a "platform for piracy" and its exhortation to Europe to crack down on on the search firm even further. In a post on the Choc Factory's official blog, Rachel Whetstone, head of global comms, rebutted News Corp's points one by one while taking a few …
Murdoch to Europe: Inflict MORE PAIN on Google, please
Rupert Murdoch's minions have written to the European Commissioner for Competition Joaquín Almunia, urging him to mete out stern punishment to Google in the ongoing search market dominance probe. The minion in question is News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson and his urgings are detailed in a letter he sent to Almunia last …
Rupert Murdoch says Google is worse than the NSA
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has taken to Twitter and labelled Google worse than the NSA. Here's The Dirty Digger's missive: NSA privacy invasion bad, but nothing compared to Google. — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) August 17, 2014 Murdoch and Google have history, with the former accusing the latter of stealing his …
Coulson GUILTY of conspiring to hack phones between 2000 and 2006
Andy Coulson, the ex-News of the World editor and erstwhile spin doctor to Prime Minister David Cameron, has been found guilty at the Old Bailey in London of conspiring to hack phones. Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks was cleared on all counts of hacking into voicemails, bribery and perverting the course of …
BSkyB eyes up Uncle Rupert's telly channels in Germany and Italy
Rupert Murdoch is locked in talks with BSkyB to discuss the British pay-TV firm's "potential acquisition" of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia – both assets of his broadcasting empire, 21st Century Fox. The media baron's Fox, which also owns 39 per cent of BSkyB, confirmed this morning that it's discussing the future of its …
Murdoch says Microsoft needs 'big clean out'
Rupert Murdoch has issued another in his occasional series of tweets about technology companies. This time the target is Microsoft. Here's the tweet: Microsoft moves and options for future fascinate. Need for big clean out of bureaucracy and focus on next big tech wave. Metadata? — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) April 10, …
Murdoch dumps Microsoft, prepares to Hangout with Google
Rupert Murdoch is fond of berating Google, last year emitting the Tweet below and previously accusing it of stealing his precious content. "Please expose Eric Schmidt, Google " etc. Just wait! — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) October 13, 2013 What, then, are we to make of this report titled "News Corp dumps Microsoft for …
Murdoch EYEBALLS Twitter with $25m buyout of news aggregator Storyful
A Dublin, Ireland-based company that carefully strips out news stories from other content on sites such as Twitter has been bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $25m. Storyful, whose founder and chief Mark Little rather grandly bills the outfit as "the first news agency of the social media age", will operate as a …
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