Time Warner Cable could buy a piece of Hulu’s pie, report says

Media company Time Warner could be weighing a deal to buy a stake in streaming video service Hulu.

Aereo CEO on CBS & Fox cable threats: Can you really disenfranchise 54M antenna users?

"They're independent businesses, they can choose to do what they wish to," said Aereo's Chet Kanojia at the Ad Age Digital conference today.

Now CBS is threatening to become a cable channel if Aereo isn’t shut down

Major broadcast station CBS could disconnect its freely available broadcast signal in favor of becoming a cable channel, according to recent comments made by CBS chief exec Leslie Moonves.

Aereo could cause Fox to become a cable channel, according to News Corp.

News Corp. may take its major broadcast station Fox off the air and convert it to a cable network, the company said today.

Is Hulu worth $500M? Former News Corp. president thinks so.

Official bidding for the sale of streaming video service Hulu ended last year when Hulu owners took it off the market, but that isn't stopping others from making offers.

Hulu still attracting interest from would-be buyers Amazon, Yahoo, & Guggenheim Digital Media

While Hulu's owners officially took the streaming video service off the market last year, would-be buyers are still showing plenty of interest.

IGN gets a new home under new owners Ziff Davis

IGN, which runs a network of video game and entertainment news websites, was sold by owners News Corp. to Ziff Davis, the companies announced today.

Paywall newspaper offers subsidized Nexus 7 to new subscribers

Would you start subscribing to a paywalled newspaper again if they offered to sell you a brand new 7-inch tablet for about $75?

News Corp axes iPad news app The Daily (and bolsters the New York Post)

Production of the Daily's iPad app will cease on December 15, 2012, though News Corp says its brand will "live on" in other properties.

Going once; going twice: News Corp. to auction off IGN Entertainment

IGN is a network of websites primarily focused on video games and pop culture. It ranks in the top 500 most-trafficked sites on the Internet according to monitoring site Alexa.

iPad-focused magazine The Daily axes a third of its staff

Digital magazine The Daily has laid off nearly a third of its staff to help the unprofitable publication save costs, parent company News Corp. announced today.

Since the launch of the The Daily in February 2011, people have wondered if …

News Corp aims to reinvent learning with Amplify tablet and education unit

After getting lessons recently on the legality of cell phone hacking, News Corp is looking to do some teaching of its own.

The company has finally given a name to the education unit it launched almost two years ago: Amplify. …

Splitsville: News Corp re-orgs into separate publishing and entertainment businesses

Rupert Murdoch is splitting News Corp, the multinational corporation behind Fox Network, Sky News, the Wall Street Journal, and 20th Century Fox, into two businesses, separating the publishing and entertainment divisions. He will remain firmly in charge as chairman of …

Splitting the baby: News Corp. may separate entertainment, newspaper businesses

News Corp’s entertainment business is surging. Its newspaper sector — not so much.

This is likely why News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is considering splitting the company’s publishing and entertainment divisions, the Wall Street Journal reports.

With the split, News …

Facebook investor Jim Breyer gets $100M in IPO, but is overstretched

Only a dozen or so really big names have led the venture capital industry consistently over the past decade. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is one of them.

This weekend, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, was the subject of …

Hulu co-owner Providence Equity sells its stake for $200M

Providence Equity Partners, the only one of Hulu’s four owners that isn’t a media company, has sold its 10 percent stake in the premium TV streaming video site for $200 million, reports Bloomberg .

Providence was nearing a deadline on …

Next Issue Media launches with all-you-can-read pricing model

Though digital magazine circulation has increased significantly in recent months, it remains a mere one percent of overall circulation, Ad Age reported last week. A group of five major publishers is hoping Next Issue Media, a company launching its full-feature …

The Daily doubles down on custom app development, hints about move to iPhone

The Daily, which began life as Rupert Murdoch’s first stab at a tablet only newspaper, has found a new life as a custom app developer. Today it’s releasing the Android version of its guide to the much anticipated Angry Birds …

Unlock conference aims to draw the game industry’s elite (exclusive)

Unlock, a new conference in La Jolla, Calif., is aiming draw the elite executives of the video game industry. The two-day event is hosted by the leaders of IGN, GameStop, and Facebook’s game business.

Roy Bahat, general manager of News …

Cisco to acquire video software maker NDS for a whopping $5B

Networking titan Cisco has agreed to purchase Israeli video software company NDS for a cool $5 billion, the company announced Thursday morning.

NDS focuses on software that delivers video and interactive entertainment to set-top boxes and across other devices. The …