3 Media Stocks in Focus: News Corp.’s Major Holder, Netflix Sets Pay-TV Bar,...
News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA): Southeastern Asset Management has purchased an 11.9 percent block of News Corp.’s voting rights, representative of a 4.1 percent economic interest. Based on Tuesday’s closing...
View Article7 Companies That Break the Advertising Bank
Last week, Kantar Media published its report of U.S. advertising expenditures in 2013′s second quarter and illuminated that the period’s figure has risen 3.5 percent from a year ago, finishing at...
View ArticleHow Did News Corp. Turn Profits Around?
A filing shows that the publishing company News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) made a profit, which is a turn around from last year’s loss. The company under chairman Rupert Murdoch split this off from the rest...
View ArticleFord’s Strong Month, BofA Finishes Merrill Inclusion, and 3 More Hot Stocks
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F): General Motors reported a fairly mixed month of September, though that wasn’t the case for Camp Ford, where unit sales grew 6 percent to 185,146, against estimates for a flat...
View ArticleCriminal Trials Over News Corp. Hacking Start Monday
The criminal trial for Rebekah Brooks, the former News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) executive and onetime protege of Rupert Murdoch, is set to begin in London on Monday, which – The Wall Street Journal reports...
View Article3 Media Stocks in Focus: Disney to Consolidate, News Corp’s Shares Decline,...
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS): Disney says that it plans to combine the games and media groups within its Interactive operations to push for a more unified business strategy, and has appointed Jimmy...
View ArticleHarperCollins Accuses Apple of Copyright Infringement
News Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NWS) (NASDAQ:NWSA) HarperCollins, one of the world’s largest publishing companies, recently requested that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) remove search engine links to some of its own books...
View Article5 of America’s Most Powerful Modern Business Dynasties
Alex Wong/Getty Images Power and wealth often come hand in hand, and can be passed down from generation to generation. Not entirely different from the monarchies and royal bloodlines of old, large sums...
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