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  • Board approves News Corp split into two entities Board approves News Corp split into two entities

    WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...

  • Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion

    WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

  • Googles Schmidt Teens mistakes will never go away

    Speaking at a festival in the U.K., Google's executive chairman offers that the things teens do now will stay with them forever, by way of the Web. He also suggested some people are sharing too much ...

  • Does Bible Belt love porn as much as the godless do

    Figures provided by popular site PornHub suggest that those who live in allegedly more religious communities enjoy as much online release as the allegedly ...

  • Beware the coming of the Google Glass photographer

    Grovo offer a glimpse into a horrifying future. An obnoxious, photo-obsessed Glass owner gets all up in everyone's grill to record everything with many, many blinks of the eye. I'd love to say this is all just hyperbole for the sake of getting a laugh, but then I think of the guy shouting at a person on speakerphone in the library, or the number of phone conversations had by people ...

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Days of Thunder [Blu-Ray]

Days of Thunder [Blu-Ray]

Days of Thunder, which reunited star Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, is such a naked attempt to recapture the lightning-in-a-bottle effect of their previous collaboration, 1986s smash hit Top Gun, that it is imposs ... ...

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  • Mike Darnell Steps Down as Fox Reality Capo

    Nearly 20 years into a stint that saw him steer an unscripted slate that included the likes of When Animals Attack! and American Idol, Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell is leaving the ...

  • SAG-AFTRA Responds to Foreign Royalties Lawsuit

    Labor The union added that it would "vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course." The suit was reportedly filed by former SAG president Ed Asner and others. Counsel for the plaintiffs did not respond to a message left Friday afternoon. Foreign levies (also called foreign royalties) result from sums that collection societies in certain countries collect based on various ...

  • Fox executive Darnell to leave TV network after ratings slump

    LOS ANGELES | Fri May 24, 2013 5:34pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 24 (Reuters) - Longtime Fox television executive Mike Darnell, who helped shepherd "American Idol" to the top of U.S. TV ratings, will leave the network, Fox said on Friday, after the network lost its lead among the younger audience most appealing to advertisers. Darnell, 51, the network's president of alternative ...

  • The Future of Media as Seen at Internet Week

    Keynote: NBC Universal Exec VP Lauren Zalaznick in conversation with Media REDefined’s Jason Hirschhorn (also a former exec at MySpace and ...

  • Pac-Mania alive and well

    (Credit: Getty Images) We missed the official anniversary by a couple of days -- mark the calendar for May 22 -- but let's not close the week without taking a moment to mark Pac-Man's remarkable status as a cultural icon. In the 33 years since the game's creator, Toru Iwatani, saw his invention make it into the market for the first time, Pac-Man has become a reference point ...

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