After Los Angeles schools recalled iPads distributed to students, a school district in North Carolina has suspended a tablet program with News Corp.’s Amplify. Read more »
Subsidized reading devices are a reality for digital content publishers. News Corp’s Times is giving a big discount off Google’s Nexus 7 to folks who pay for its news each month. Read more »
News Corp. has said it is finally shutting down The Daily, the iPad-only newspaper it launched in 2011. Although the media giant should be given some credit for experimenting with a… Read more »
News Corp concedes its pioneering tablet-only news title is not popular enough to continue as anything other than a learning exercise, marking the failure of one aspect of Rupert Murdoch’s tablet… Read more »
The Huffington Post has dropped the price of its iPad magazine to zero, and News Corp.’s The Daily has chopped almost a third of its staff — more evidence that the… Read more »
Netflix talked confidently in its second quarter letter to shareholders this week of its ability to compete with Amazon-owned LoveFilm and BSkyB’s recently launched Now TV services in the U.K. But… Read more »
Building on the acquisition of Brooklyn-based digital education company Wired Generation, News Corp today unveiled its education technology business Amplified. Read more »
News Corp.’s digital tabloid The Daily has been on borrowed time since it was an idea, given enough resources by Rupert Murdoch to launch but no guarantee of longevity. But Editor-in-Chief… Read more »