Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter

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News Corp. Buys Into Ed Tech Firm for $360 Mil.

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News Corp. has agreed to acquire 90 percent of Wireless Generation, a privately held Brooklyn, N.Y.-based education technology firm, for about $360 million in cash, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The [...]

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News Corp. Buys Into Ed Tech Firm

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News Corp. said late Monday that it has agreed to acquire 90 percent of Wireless Generation, a privately held Brooklyn-based education technology firm, for about $360 million in cash, reports [...]

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Zucker: The ‘Big Issue’ Delaying Comcast-NBC Deal

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NBC Universal and Comcast are “in the endgame” of the regulatory review of their planned deal with the key conditions on the union likely to come in the online video [...]

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iTunes, Meet the Beatles

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The Beatles are finally available on Apple’s iTunes digital music store. Apple, Apple Corps and music major EMI made the announcement, which Apple has pursued for years, Tuesday morning. Financial [...]

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Are Web TV Viewers Cord Cutters — or Keepers?

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Pay TV industry folks have heatedly debated this fall whether consumers are dropping their cable or other TV subscriptions to watch more TV content online. A new study by Nielsen, [...]

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Study: Do Web TV Viewers Watch Less of the Real Deal?

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Pay TV industry folks have heatedly debated this fall whether consumers are dropping their cable or other TV subscriptions to watch more TV content online. A new study by Nielsen, [...]

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Michael Eisner’s Vuguru Inks Content Deal With AOL

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Vuguru, the online studio of former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner (pictured), will produce at least six scripted original Web video series for AOL as the partners look to set [...]

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PTC Says Broadcast TV Profanity on the Rise

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Profanity has risen 69 percent over the past five years on broadcast TV, according to a new study by the Parents Television Council (PTC) that compared the first two weeks [...]

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Sirius’ Karmazin: Talks With Howard Stern Ongoing

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Satellite radio company Sirius XM continues discussions with Howard Stern about a potential extension of his contract, which expires at the end of the year, CEO Mel Karmazin said Thursday. [...]

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DreamWorks Puts Zynga in the Picture

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Zynga and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) have partnered on what is the social gaming firm’s first feature film integration — a 24-hour campaign designed to boost awareness of the Friday release [...]