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Business Wire | 28 days 1 hour 38 minutes ago
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7th Annual Premios Fox Sports Set for December 10, 2009 at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino [Press Release]
Business Wire | 14 days 19 hours 1 minute ago
Delivering on its mission to bring Latino sports fans closer to their favorite athletes and teams, Fox Pan American Sports LLC today announced the return of Premios Fox Sports™ to South Florida following pan-regional events in Mexico City (Mexico) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) last year. The seventh edition of Premios Fox Sports™ will be held on December 10, 2009 at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and will benefit the Ganley Foundation, a non-profi...


NDS Announces Jinni as First Company to Join Recommendations Engine Partner Programme [Press Release]
Business Wire | 21 days 38 minutes ago
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the launch of its Recommendations Engine Partner Programme. Jinni, an innovative semantic discovery service for premium video content, is the first company to join the programme.


Fox Sports en Espa ol Hits Ratings Home Run with 2009 World Series Coverage [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 23 hours 38 minutes ago
Fox Sports en Español, the country’s leading Spanish-language sports media platform, struck out the competition with its coverage of the recently concluded 2009 Major League Baseball World Series. The network’s number one program during the ratings bonanza was Game Six of the World Series (Yankees vs. Phillies, 11/4/09), which delivered 261,000 Hispanics in the key P18-49 demographic. Overall, Fox Sports en Español finished with a 3.43 (1.74 P18-49) household coverage rating, up 81% in total ...


MySpace to Host Exclusive Live Stream of Summit Entertainment s The Twilight Saga: New Moon Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals on Monday, November 16 at 6:00 PM PT [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 22 hours 56 minutes ago
MySpace will host the exclusive live stream of Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon red carpet arrivals at the world premiere on Monday, November 16 at www.myspace.com/newmoonpremiere. The unprecedented online access is the first time moviegoers across the globe can experience the premiere first-hand, as it unfolds. Viewers will also be able to take part by posting comments or questions to The Twilight Saga: New Moon Premiere MySpace page that may then be presented to the celebr...


Fox Sports En Espa ol Broadcasting First Ever Latin American Poker Event in the U.S. [Press Release]
Business Wire | 17 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago
Fox Sports en Español, the country’s top Spanish-language sports brand, and PokerStars.net, the world’s largest online poker school, recently announced the first-ever Spanish-language U.S. broadcast of a Latin American poker event. This marks the network’s commitment to continue expanding popular sports content into its mix of professional and amateur sporting events. Fox Sports en Español’s coverage of the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is scheduled to air through October 10...


Castle Gold Provides an Update on Argonaut Gold Cash Offer [Press Release]
MarketWire | 1 minute ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- CASTLE GOLD CORPORATION ("Castle Gold" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: CSG) is pleased to announce that it has mailed to shareholders its directors' circular in response to Argonaut Gold Inc.'s proposed all cash acquisition of all of the shares of Castle Gold previously announced on October 28th, 2009 (the "Offer"). The Offer by Argonaut is the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding Castle Gold common shares for a minimum of C$1.25 i...


Ruddick Corporation Reports Fiscal 2009 Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 25 days 17 hours 38 minutes ago
Ruddick Corporation (NYSE:RDK) (the “Company”) today reported that consolidated sales for fiscal 2009 increased by 2.1% to $4.08 billion from $3.99 billion in fiscal 2008. Consolidated sales for the fiscal fourth quarter ended September 27, 2009 increased by 2.1% to $1.05 billion from $1.03 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. The increase in consolidated sales for the year and quarter was attributable to sales increases at Harris Teeter, the Company’s supermarket subsidiary, that we...


Western Copper Expands In-Pit Mineralization and Discovers a New Molybdenum Zone at Casino [Press Release]
MarketWire | 5 days 18 hours 38 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/18/09 -- Western Copper Corporation ("Western Copper" or the "Company") (TSX: WRN) is pleased to announce assay results from the completed exploration program at its wholly owned Casino Project in the Yukon Territory, Canada.


Target Corporation Announces Strong Third Quarter Earnings [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 13 minutes ago
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) today reported net earnings of $436 million for the third quarter ended October 31, 2009, compared with $369 million in the third quarter ended November 1, 2008. Earnings per share in the third quarter increased 18.6 percent to $0.58 from $0.49 in the same period a year ago. All earnings per share figures refer to diluted earnings per share.


ATCO Structures and Logistics Introduces Line of Permanent Modular Buildings [Press Release]
MarketWire | 7 days 8 hours 4 minutes ago
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this Press Release.


CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: ATCO Launches Province-Wide Youth Campaign [Press Release]
MarketWire | 6 days 11 hours 58 minutes ago
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/17/09 -- A correction from source is being issued for the release issued November 17, 2009 at 11:57 ET. The correction can be found in the eighth paragraph, the website was changed from


ATCO Launches Province-Wide Youth Campaign [Press Release]
MarketWire | 6 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/17/09 -- Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with the Press Release.


Target Corp. to Webcast 3rd Quarter Earnings Conference Call [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 13 minutes ago
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Company Overview


Company: News Corporation
Industry: Media
Website: http://www.newscorp.com

This News is heard, seen, and read all around the world. The world's #3 media conglomerate (behind Time Warner and Walt Disney), News Corporation has operations spanning film, television, and publishing. It produces and distributes movies through Fox Filmed Entertainment, while its FOX Broadcasting network boasts more than 200 affiliate stations in the US. The company also owns and operates more than 25 TV stations, as well as a portfolio of cable networks. Its publishing businesses include newspaper publishers Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal) and News International (The Times, London), and book publisher HarperCollins. In addition, News Corporation owns about 40% of British Sky Broadcasting.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 30,423 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Sales -7.8 (2009)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -3,378 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 (2009)
Number of Employees 55,000 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -14.1 (2009)
Fiscal Year-End June