Les Hinton, a senior executive as News Corp (NWS) has been named the head of Dow Jones (DJ). Times of London editor Robert Thomson has been named Publisher of The Wall Street…
Douglas A. McIntyre GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) has been paid quite a nice complement today. It has been selected to replace Dow Jones (NYSE:DJ) in the beloved S&P 500 Index after the close on a date…
If you regularly use MarketWatch, you’ve probably noticed some additional offerings and additional features of late. If you haven’t noticed you probably will soon. MarketWatch has added "First Take" for more original…
Douglas A. McIntyre Dow Jones & Co. (NYSE:DJ) has announced it is exploring strategic alternatives for its Ottoway group of community newspapers and media franchises. The options under consideration include a possible sale of some…
Air France KLM SA (NYSE:AKH/ADR) shares traded up roughly 7% Thursday after beating earnings from price hikes and fuel hedging. After United Rentals (NYSE:URI) said it was suing Cerberus on the broken…
According to Reuters, executives at Ford (F) say that they see a tough US market and will cut production as necessary. Reuters reports that Northern Rock received an injunction from the publication…
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NWS) told Reuters that the tough economy is not hurting his company in the current quarter. Good news for his shareholders. But, the most important thing…
According to Reuters, News Corp (NWS) CEO Rupert Murcoch says the company is having a strong quarter. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) has entered partnerships to expand its mobile business across Asia.…
News Corp (NWS) reported first quarter consolidated operating income of $1.05 billion, up 23% as compared to the $851 million reported a year ago, primarily as a result of double-digit percentage increases…
Douglas A. McIntyre Those who believe that the newspaper industry is going the way of the Dodo and buggy whip and can’t conceive that enhanced online versions of papers can ever do especially wellought to…
News Corp’s (NWS) is launching a way for advertisers to target users at its huge social network, MySpace. The marketer’s knock against the site has been that users cannot be grouped into…
According to Reuters, Chuck Prince stepped down at CEO of Citigroup (C) and the bank indicated it may have to write off as much as another $11 billion. Reuters writes that shares…
According to Reuters, Toyota (TM) and GM (GM) gained sales in October despite a weak US car market. Reuters writes that News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace joined the new Google (GOOG) association of…
TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace will join the new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial initiative. The Google program pulls together a number of social networks include the…
TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) is "preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene." The project is currently called “Maka-Maka”. Google already owns large social network Orkut, but most…
