News Corporation
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Lions, Tigers and Bears are Just the Beginning with Spring 2010 Launch of New Cable Network Nat Geo Wild [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 38 days 12 hours 55 minutes ago
...received the most Emmy(R) nominations for excellence in News and Documentary of any single cable network during the...includes 36 domestic programming services in which News Corporation holds interests. Together these networks reach more...
Hemisphere Energy Corporation Announces Private Placement [Press Release]
MarketWire | 19 days 6 hours 47 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/04/09 -- Hemisphere Energy Corporation (TSX VENTURE: HME) announces, subject to regulatory acceptance, a non-brokered private placement, to consist of the sale of up to 5,000,000 units at a price of $0.20 per unit, each unit to consist of one (1) common share and one (1) non-transferable share purchase warrant, with each warrant to entitle the holder to purchase one additional common share at a price of $0.30 for a period of one year from clo...
Skinit Appoints Greg Wimmer Chief Financial Officer [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 31 days 13 hours 55 minutes ago
...sites, where he played an instrumental role in the sale of the Company to Fox Interactive Media, A Division of News Corporation for $ 300m in 2007. Before that, he was chief financial officer for WaveMarket, Inc., a software-location...
PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Oro Silver Resources, Alcoa Inc., Cardium Therapeutics Inc., Altima Resources Ltd. and Citadel Broadcasting Corporation [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 9 hours 55 minutes ago
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Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Owners in India Have a Happier Home Life According to NDS Survey [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 3 hours 25 minutes ago
Owning a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) makes for a happier home life according to a new survey of DVR owners in India commissioned by NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and undertaken by Media Partners Asia (MPA). Owners of DVRs such as Tata Sky+ and the Hathway Digital Box Plus Recorder questioned for the survey overwhelmingly said that a DVR makes TV viewing more enjoyable (88%), and enables them to find and watch more interesting programmes (64%).
Adventures by Disney, HarperCollins Announce 'The Search for Flat Stanley's Next BIG Adventure' [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 35 days 11 hours 25 minutes ago
...division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English language publishers in the world and a subsidiary of News Corporation . Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australasia...
Kinross Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results [Press Release]
MarketWire | 21 days 1 hour 47 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/02/09 -- Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K)(NYSE: KGC) today announced its unaudited results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.
Nation s Top Amateur Soccer Players from El Sue o de tu Vida to Battle Club America s Reserve Pros in Second Annual Verizon Wireless National All-Star Game Presented by Fox Sports en Espa ol and Sears [Press Release]
Business Wire | 42 days 17 hours 55 minutes ago
Eighteen of the nation’s top amateur soccer players will participate in the Second Annual Verizon Wireless National All-Star Game for the chance of a professional contract. “El Sueño de tu Vida” 2009 national finalists will face Mexico’s famed Club America’s reserves at California State University’s Titan Stadium in Fullerton on October 24 at 7pm. Produced by Alianza de Futbol Hispano, in partnership with Verizon Wireless, Fox Sports en Español, and Sears, the dream match is the culmination o...
Acquisition of Securities of Strategem Capital Corporation [Press Release]
MarketWire | 19 days 55 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/04/09 -- On November 2, 2009, Kenneth W. Morgan ("Morgan"), CEO and director of Strategem Capital Corporation (the "Company" or "Strategem") (TSX VENTURE: SGE), acquired 97,000 common shares of Strategem in the public market. The 97,000 common shares purchased represent 1.8% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Strategem.
Wyclef Jean's Memoir to be Published by It Books [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 35 days 10 hours 46 minutes ago
...expectations." HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation . Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including the HarperCollins General...
MySpace Uses Fusion-Powered I/O to Drive Greener Datacenters [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 14 hours 55 minutes ago
Fusion-io today announced that it is working closely with MySpace to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and costs associated with MySpace’s datacenter operations. Using innovative solid-state storage solutions from Fusion-io, MySpace successfully deployed Fusion-io’s technology to optimize their capital equipment and reduce the floor space and power consumed by their datacenter operations – significantly minimizing MySpace’s environmental impact.
ChinaEdu Corporation to Present at 2009 ROTH China Conference [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 44 days 15 hours 55 minutes ago
BEIJING, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaEdu Corporation
Euroseas, Safe Bulkers, Seanergy Maritime, Teekay Corporation and Tsakos Energy Navigation Panelists on "The Global Shipping Markets Today" at the Capital Link Forum [Press Release]
MarketWire | 11 days 4 hours 4 minutes ago
NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/09 -- Senior Executives from
STAR Expands its Offerings to Comcast Customers in San Francisco Bay Area [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 104 days 21 hours 54 minutes ago
LIVERMORE, Calif. and HONG KONG, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- STAR, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation
Castle Gold Announces Terms of Private Placement [Press Release]
MarketWire | 17 days 11 hours 25 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/06/09 -- CASTLE GOLD CORPORATION ("Castle Gold") (TSX VENTURE: CSG) is pleased to release the terms of its private placement (previously announced on October 28th, 2009).
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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 |
