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RSS News CorpPalm Pre steps up as iPhone rival
News But its launch will be seen as a badly needed shot of adrenaline for Palm and exclusive provider Sprint Nextel Corp. Palm shares rose nine per cent last Thursday after the surprise news that US wireless... [03 Jun 2009]
Facebook and Twitter just need one thing: Money
News A search advertising deal between Google and News Corp's MySpace social network has not lived up to expectations, they say. Facebook and Twitter have helped make social networking a household word. Now... [26 May 2009]
Bill Gates: The answer to recession is tech
News The opportunities for innovation are stronger today than ever," Gates told the audience, which included billionaire investor Warren Buffett - the world's second richest man behind Gates himself - alongside News... [22 May 2009]
Facebook fights off another hack attack
News Privately held Facebook and rival social network MySpace, which is owned by News Corp, require senders of messages within the network to be members and hide user data from people who do not have accounts. [15 May 2009]
Is Your Data Center Ready for Virtualization? Important power considerations for virtualized IT environments
White Paper The good news is that there are practical and affordable ways to address these challenges and improve data center efficiency in the process. Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings in terms of... [09 Apr 2009]
Skype unveils iPhone and BlackBerry services
News CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood said the new applications give Skype a chance to boost its mobile phone position, which has been weaker than that of social sites such as Facebook, Twitter or News Corp's... [30 Mar 2009]
Social networking: Global phenomenon
News News Corp's MySpace, still the biggest social network in the US, is not doing quite as well internationally. The latest statistics from ComScore show social networking sites such as Facebook are growing... [13 Aug 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News MySpace, owned by News Corp since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the US, where both companies are based. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the... [24 Jun 2008]
Developers snub Vista for XP
News The survey, released by US research firm Evans Data Corp, found only eight per cent of the 390 developers who responded are currently writing applications for Vista, while more than half have continued to target XP. [19 May 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News He indicated that joining with Microsoft is probably the only way News Corp would be involved. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! [22 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a... [26 Mar 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News s possible white knights, News Corp, indicated it had no interest in entering into a bidding war with Microsoft. CNET News.com's Ina Fried contributed to this report. Microsoft and... [14 Mar 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News Corp.s... [13 Mar 2008]
Time Warner talks to thwart Microsoft bid?
News and News Corp continue to talk as well, discussing a deal under which News Corp would sell MySpace to Yahoo! Yahoo! and Time Warner have held talks on a deal designed to... [05 Mar 2008]
Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid
News Meanwhile, on Saturday a TechCrunch blogger cited rumours that News Corp.which had considered merging its MySpace social-networking site with Yahoo! Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's... [04 Feb 2008]
