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In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies

In a world where thousands and thousands of startups are started in the Bay Area every year, becoming a name that everyone recognizes is no small feat. Theranos reached that summit, and it all came cr

News Corp. Backs Down On Anti-Google Stance, Plans Searchable Article Previews, Keeps Paywall Intact

Rupert Murdoch's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newscorp.com/">News Corp.</a> is planning once again to let stories from its paywalled UK newspaper <a target="_blank" href="http://thetimes.co.uk"

News Corp. Q4 Sales Of $8.4B Miss Estimates, Takes $2.8B Charge On Publishing Business

News Corporation has just reported its <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newscorp.com/investor/download/NWS_Q4_2012.pdf">quarterly earnings</a>. For Q4 it had revenues of $8.4 billion with earnings

Accel Partners’ Jim Breyer Slated To Join News Corp Board, Perkins To Exit

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jim-breyer">Jim Breyer</a>, a partner of venture capital firm <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/accel-partners">Accel Partners</a>, ha

TrueCar Acquires News Corp-Backed Automotive Social Network Honk.com

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/honk.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/truecar">TrueCar</a>, which helps people research <a href="http://www.t

DLD11: James Murdoch On The Daily, Paywalls, Google And Apple

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/murdoch.jpg" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-murdoch">James Murdoch</a>, son of media mogul <a href="http://

The Times UK Lost 4 Million Readers To Its Paywall Experiment

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/times-uk-chart.jpg"> Back in June, News Corp put two more of its newspapers, other than the <em>Wall Street Journal,</em> behind a paywall: <

In Preparation For Sale To Rubicon Project, Fox Audience Network Fires Half Its Staff

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/fan-logo.png"> News Corp is on the verge of unloading another one of its digital businesses under Fox Interactive Media, the <a href="http://

Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed

<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/4414/4414v79-max-250x250.png' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a series of articles

Wall Street Journal Throws A Softball To MySpace

<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/4414/4414v79-max-250x250.png' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />I'm sort of scratching my head at the Wall Street Journal's <a href="h

News Corp. Buys Social Software Studio Irata Labs (Yes, The #Spymaster Guys)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/irata.png" class="shot2" /><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/newscorporation">News Corp.</a> has acquired <a href="http://iratalabs.c

Wall Street Journal Pro Edition Now Available For Consumers ($49 per Month)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pro.gif" class="shot2" />Back in October 2009, Dow Jones <a href="http://www.dowjones.com/product-wsj-prof-edition.asp">debuted</a> a premium

News Corp. Throwing Away The Crown Jewel: Fox Audience Network

<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/fan.jpg' class="shot" alt="" />News Corp. isn't beating around the bush with its digital assets. Rotten Tomatoes has<a href="https://techcrunc

IGN Entertainment Slashes 20 Percent Of Staff

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/ignlogo.png"> Nobody is safe in the House of Murdoch, especially on the Internet side of the house. Yesterday, News Corp's online games busi

Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: "Burn The Boats"

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/burning-ship.jpeg"> Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them t

News Corp Earnings Are In: Digital Media Contribution Decreases By $32 Million YOY

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/newscorp-215x35.jpg" width="215" height="35" /><a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscorp.com&a

You Can Ignore The AP's Bluster. It Is Just A Negotiating Bluff.

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/Yapping-dog-213x200.jpg" width="213" height="200" /> The Associated Press is yapping again about the "exploitation of news" by search engines

Jonathan Miller, Who's Taking Over MySpace, Doesn't Have A MySpace Profile

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/cp_1238464174_12989v1-max-250x250-166x200.jpg" width="166" height="200" />As far as we can tell, the guy who's going to be taking over MySpace