News Corporation

REBEKAH Wade, the editor of The Sun who is newly charged with running the News Corporation's British newspaper business, is famed for her networking prowess and bulging contacts book.

Macrovision Solutions Corporation , a digital entertainment technology leader, and NDS Group Ltd, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that FOXTEL, Australia's leading subscription television provider has signed a multi-year agreement for licenses to Macrovision's electronic program guide patent ...

But the remainder of the quarterly Dow Jones VentureSource report was filled with grim statistics.

Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp intends to charge "handsomely" for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually.

Sources last night said that Ms Murdoch's understanding of international media and her entrepreneurial skills made her an obvious candidate for an initial list.

News Corp .'s popular social networking site MySpace is reportedly planning on restructuring its international operations by cutting 300 of its 450 employees and shuttering at least four of its overseas locations.

This story was written by Staci D. Kramer. The slasher film series continues at Fox Interactive Media, which laid off another 50-75 people today at its non-MySpace properties as the News Corp .

One of the last big clashes of the leveraged buyout boom has finally sputtered out.

THE editor of the Sun is to become the new chief executive of News International.

Rebekah Wade: was announced as chief executive of News International today. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Rebekah Wade , the editor of the Sun , will become chief executive of News International from September.

Robert Thomson continues his remake of the Wall Street Journal 's global structure with the hiring of former Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft as editor-in-chief for Europe.

MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corporation , the media conglomerate controlled by Mr.

" MySpace was a good acquisition at one point... but the truth of the matter is they were not able to sustain or be competitive with other companies, notably Facebook .

NEW YORK: US Internet social networking giant MySpace said yesterday it would cut 500 jobs, nearly 30 per cent of its domestic staff, in a restructuring aimed at boosting efficiency.

The White House said Wednesday that President Obama had dismissed a government agency's internal watchdog because he was incompetent and had behaved bizarrely, disputing accusations that he was fired because he had uncovered embarrassing problems in the AmeriCorps program.

The Weekly Standard, founded by editor William Kristol and owned by Rupert Murdocha s News Corporation, is now under new ownership.

The shoe has dropped at MySpace and it's a big one: the News Corp social network is cutting nearly 30 percent of its staff, reducing the domestic staff size to 1,000 from 1,420 as it tries to dial back to a start-up culture - and to make money.

Those MySpace rumors we've been talking about are very real. A week ago we wrote that MySpace and parent company Fox Interactive Media would layoff hundreds of employees .

When Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi clash, it is no surprise that the dispute plays out across multiple platforms.

You may have heard about the salary freezes and wage cuts at media companies like the NYTCo , Gannett and Dow Jones .