New York, NY (March 25, 2021) – News Corp announced today it has agreed to acquire Investor’s Business Daily from O’Neil Capital Management. The high margin, profitable and rapidly growing digital first financial news and research business will be operated by Dow Jones, a News Corp subsidiary.
Bauer Media has acquired Inside Out, Country Style and HomeLife.com.au from News Corp Australia to add to its portfolio of homes brands, Real Living, Australian House and Garden, Belle and digital platform, Homes to Love.
New York-based ad targeting tech specialist AppNexus has closed a $31m investment round, including $10m from Rupert Murdoch’s media group News Corp, which will now have access to AppNexus’ full suite of technology products.The firm’s software helps publishers maximize yield; and marketers and agencies harness data and machine learning to deliver intelligent and customized campaigns
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group has mounted a major challenge to BBC radio with a £220m takeover of Wireless Group, the owner of the Premier League football broadcaster talkSport.
News Corp press release: In a statement released with the earnings, the media firm said: “While we believe in the strength of our print properties, we are also investing energetically in the rapid pursuit of digital which is clearly evident in the transition at Dow Jones.
“At Dow Jones this quarter, digital accounted for more than 50% of total revenues for the first time, and digital-only subscribers at the Wall Street Journal grew to 893,000, representing nearly 45% of the base.”
Increase comes after cuts to editorial and marketing budgets and a decline in printing costs
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers pushed to loss as value of publishing rights falls and £50m is set aside to deal with continuing cost of hacking scandal
Rebekah Brooks is to take charge of her first digital acquisition after returning to News UK with the £58m acquisition of ad platform Unruly Media by parent company News Corp
News Corp has made a hefty writedown on the value of its digital education unit and signalled a potential exit from a business Rupert Murdoch once hoped would shake up the textbook-heavy US education industry
Declining sales, advertising and subscriptions hurt revenues at Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper business in the final quarter of last year, News Corp has reported
Times Newspapers (TNL) has posted a £1.7m operating profit for the year ending 30 June 2014, its first profitable year since 2001
The Sun newspaper has doubled its number of digital subscribers to 225,000, but failed to offset a decline in its overall paid readership, in a test case of whether tabloid newspapers can successfully charge for online content.
News Corp and Move, Inc. announced today that News Corp has agreed to acquire Move inc, a leading online real estate business
News Corp revenues fell 3% in the last quarter, the company said on Thursday amid a “challenging advertising environment” and declines in circulation revenues
According to the Financial Times Australia is planning its most radical shake-up of media ownership laws in two decades in a move that could lead to billions of dollars of mergers and reshape an industry in financial distress. For the full story read The FT
News Corp is working on an app-based news service to blend original reporting with repurposed content from its many outlets, reports the Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the situation. It is said to be aimed at so-called millennials – people born between 1980 and 2000 who have never developed a newsprint habit. The […]
News Corp is working on an app-based news service to blend original reporting with repurposed content from its many outlets, reports the Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the situation. It is said to be aimed at so-called millennials – people born between 1980 and 2000 who have never developed a newsprint habit. The […]
VICE Media is talking with potential buyers including News Corp.
News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m
News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m
