News Corporation

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Glee Gets In The Holiday Spirit With Festive New Single, Available Today Exclusively On iTunes [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 1 minute ago
...a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. Twentieth Century Fox Television, a division of News Corp., is a leading supplier of...Company (FOX) is a unit of News Corporation and the leading broadcast television...


Latino Sports Fans Select 10 Semifinalists to Compete for First-Ever Miss Premios Fox Sports Crown [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 hours 30 minutes ago
Following nearly three weeks of voting online, Fox Pan American Sports LLC, producer of Premios Fox Sports™ and operator of Fox Sports en Español and Fox Sports Latin America, today unveiled the 10 semifinalists advancing to the final round of the inaugural Miss Premios Fox Sports™ competition, the first-ever sports-themed pageant recognizing the beauty and grace of female sports fans throughout the United States and the Spanish-speaking Americas. Now and through December 8, 2009 fans can cas...


Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Premieres Exclusive Trailer on iTunes: Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side [Press Release]
Business Wire | 15 hours 14 minutes ago
“Family Guy” and Star Wars fans continue to see the bright-side as an all-new extended trailer for “Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side” premieres today exclusively on the iTunes Store (www.iTunes.com) and Apple.com/trailers. Fans can experience a nearly exact remake of the original trailer from the 1980 classic The Empire Strikes Back on iTunes, available directly for download at www.itunes.com/FamilyGuySSSDarkSide and on Apple.com/trailers.


Dow Jones Introduces a New Executive Dashboard for CEOs [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 7 hours 27 minutes ago
...Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company , today announced the...www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company . Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its...


Oshkosh Corporation to Present at the Credit Suisse 2009 Aerospace & Defense Conference [Press Release]
Business Wire | 9 hours 50 minutes ago
Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced today that its management will participate in the Credit Suisse 2009 Aerospace & Defense Conference being held at the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York City on Thursday, December 3, 2009.


Dow Jones Provides Interactive Online Community for its Customers [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 2 hours 40 minutes ago
...Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company , is currently hosting...www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company . Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its...


BLADE Network Technologies and Emulex Deliver Essential Networking Components for IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 minutes ago
Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) and BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that the two companies are delivering the essential networking components for IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric. BLADE’s BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Switch Module combined with Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter provide an end-to-end converged networking solution for IBM BladeCenter H and HS22 blade servers.


FOX Renews its Contract with USA Video for Expanded Deployment of Company's Unique Anti-Piracy Solutions [Press Release]
MarketWire | 5 days 9 hours 14 minutes ago
NIANTIC, CONNECTICUT -- (Marketwire) -- 11/19/09 -- USA Video Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: USVO)(OTCBB: USVO)(TSX VENTURE: US)(BERLIN: USF)(FRANKFURT: USF) today announced that based on the success of the customized deployment of its proprietary watermarking technology to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (FOX) over the past year, the company has finalized negotiations to renew and expand the original contract between the two companies. After a year of customization and evalua...


Midlands Commences Drill Preparation For More Gold on Sian and Praso-Ghana [Press Release]
MarketWire | 4 hours 26 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- Midlands Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: MEX) ("Midlands" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that following the closing of the first tranche of financing, preparations are now well underway for the next drilling program on the Sian Gold project in Ghana. "We have received very timely responses from drilling companies and we expect to announce the signing of a drilling contract shortly," said Kim Harris, President and Chief Executive Of...


News Corporation Selects Hara for On-Demand Environmental and Energy Management [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 16 hours 14 minutes ago
Hara, the fastest growing provider of on-demand environmental and energy management software, today announced that News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS), a diversified global media company with operations in eight industry segments, has selected Hara to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The company deployed Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) to provide a central platform for measuring, managing, and monitoring their energy and environmental data across the company’s div...


MYtv Selects NDS for Hybrid Pay-TV Service and First Integrated DVR in CIS [Press Release]
Business Wire | 1 day 18 hours 7 minutes ago
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that MYtv has chosen professional services and an end-to-end solution from NDS for its hybrid satellite direct-to-home (DTH) pay-TV platform. MYtv is planning to launch its pay-TV service in late 2009.


Colombian Mines Corp. Awarded Licenses on Trend With California District [Press Release]
MarketWire | 1 day 10 hours 44 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/23/09 -- (TSX VENTURE: CMJ) - Colombian Mines Corporation ("Colombian Mines" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has been awarded new licenses in the Rio Negro area of northern Colombia. A compilation of geologic mapping by the government agency Ingeominas and known gold mine locations in the California Mining District to the northeast, suggest that the Rio Negro Property may be on trend with exploration and development propertie...


News Corporation Reports First Quarter Operating Income of $1.04 Billion; Growth of 9% over the Year Ago Quarter [Press Release]
Business Wire | 20 days 8 hours 13 minutes ago
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today reported first quarter consolidated operating income of $1.04 billion, an increase of 9% compared with $953 million of operating income reported a year ago. This result reflects double-digit percentage profit increases at the Filmed Entertainment, Cable Network Programming and Book Publishing segments, partially offset by decreases at the Television, Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, Newspapers and Information Services and Other...


Optical Cable Corporation's Recently Acquired Subsidiary Prevails In Major Patent Infringement Lawsuit [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 1 day 5 hours 45 minutes ago
...www.occfiber.com Optical Cable Corporation, OCC, Superior Modular Products, SMP...logos are trademarks of Optical Cable Corporation. This news release by Optical Cable Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively...


Global Leaders Elected to Institute for Public Relations Board of Trustees; Commission on Measurement and Evaluation [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 7 hours 14 minutes ago
...Buonocore, Senior Vice President, Communications, ITT Corporation; Julie H. Craven, Vice President, Corporate Communications...Matthew Anderson, Group Director, Europe and Asia, News Corporation; Tony Cervone, Senior Vice President, Communications...





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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