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Websitenewscorp.com
CategoryCommunications
Employees5,300
Founded1980
DescriptionNews Conglomerate

Offices

New York, DEU
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
DEU

People

Chairman & CEO
SVP, Corporate Affairs and Communications
SVP Investor Relations
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Former People

SVP, Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Development Director

Acquisitions

BeliefNet, 12/07

Investments

AdChina 7/09
GetPrice 10/07
Mahalo 1/07

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News Corporation

News Corp is the world’s largest media conglomerate company.

News Corporation is a diversified global media company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers and information services; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and Latin America.

Fox Interactive Media (FIM) oversees News Corporation’s Internet business operations.

News Corp’s subsidiaries include:

MySpace

Slingshot Labs

WSJ.com

Milestones

  • Invested in AdChina. (7/17/09)
    Posted 9/25/09 at 7:18am
  • Acquired BeliefNet. (12/1/07)
    Posted 12/9/07 at 7:13am
  • Invested in GetPrice. (10/07)
    Posted 1/8/09 at 7:01pm
  • Invested in Mahalo. (1/1/07)
    Posted 8/9/07 at 5:15am
  • Teri Everett, SVP, Corporate Affairs and Communications added.
    Posted 1/5/09 at 11:03am
  • James Murdoch, Chairman, Chief Executive, Europe and Asia added.
    Posted 1/5/09 at 11:03am
  • Peter Chernin, President & COO added.
    Posted 1/5/09 at 11:03am
  • Reed Nolte, SVP Investor Relations added.
    Posted 1/5/09 at 11:03am
  • David DeVoe, Senior Executive VP, CFO added.
    Posted 1/5/09 at 11:03am
  • Evan Rudowski, Business Development Director added.
    Posted 7/23/08 at 12:41pm
  • Heather Harde, SVP, Mergers & Acquisitions added.
    Posted 6/3/08 at 10:59am
  • Rupert Murdoch, Chairman & CEO added.
    Posted 3/12/08 at 4:43pm
  • Jonathan Miller, CEO Digital Media added.
    Posted 3/27/09 at 4:41pm
  • Jeremy Philips, Executive Vice President added.
    Posted 4/22/09 at 10:40am
  • Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer added.
    Posted 5/14/09 at 11:05am
  • Went public with stock symbol NWS.
    Posted 7/30/09 at 4:40pm
  • Roger Mincheff, SVP Branded Entertainment, Fox Filmed Entertainment added.
    Posted 10/19/09 at 4:14pm

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Uploaded: 5/11/09

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Sources

  1. Citation Needed [add]
  2. Leading Chinese Online Advertising Company AdChina Completes Series B Financing (reuters.com) [edit]
  3. B&T (bandt.com.au) [edit]
  4. @ D: Calacanis’ New Venture: Mahalo, Human-Powered Search Engine; $16 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]

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