Will Murdoch swap MySpace for Yahoo! stake?
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Tabloidtakeovertastic... Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is considering swapping MySpace for a stake in Yahoo!â¦
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The Motley Fool - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, the wildly popular social networking site, is reportedly lining up yet another big deal. The deal is expected to put MySpace on Cingular's mobile phones, thus allowing the millions of MySpace users to access the site wirelessly. While users can currently access MySpace via Helios, a joint venture of Earthlink (Nasdaq: ELNK - News) and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM - News), this deal has the potential to be a game-changer.
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The Motley Fool - Last winter, I identified SNOCAP as one of four interesting privately held companies that investors might just wish were public companies. There wasn't too much news out of SNOCAP after that, to my surprise -- until now, and it's pretty big. As you have probably heard, it's hooked up with News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, enabling the popular social networking site to offer tools to musicians looking to sell directly to fans.
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MySpace Comes to China Rupert Murdochâs News Corp intends to have another go at the China Market.  After leaving the Chinese TV Market in June this year New Media will be the next attempt. From the Financial Times: Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives to help [...]
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc  is  reportedly in talks with News Corp  to combine their  Web properties, but Wall Street analysts rained scorn on the  likelihood of a deal that can fend off Microsoft Corp's   $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo.
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Business & money: Online search firm Yahoo, subject to takeover interest from Microsoft, tells of rival offer from News Corp
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News Corp. may be ready to sell off MySpace in an effort to gain a stake in search engine company Yahoo, British daily The Times reported Wednesday.
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Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off&#160;Microsoft&#39;s bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.The two companies are in talks about a deal in which News Corp. would take a stake of as much as 20 percent in Yahoo. MySpace and other Web properties of News Corp. would be combined with Yahoo, according to the report, which was attributed to &quot;people familiar with the matter.&quot;The deal would also involve a cash infusion by News Corp. and a private equity firm. Yahoo would remain independent.On Monday,&#160;Yahoo rejected Microsoft&#39;s $44.6 billion unsolicited buyout bid, saying it undervalued the company. Microsoft has vowed to take all necessary steps to close the deal.A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. News Corp. and Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment.
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A little more than a week after Yahoo received an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, the company has reportedly entered talks about a partnership with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Analysts say the matchup would do little to resolve Yahoo's woes.
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Fingers in both pies !!!!! Some of Yahoo!'s institutional investors are keen for the proposed Microsoft takeover to go ahead, not because they're pleased with the offer price but because they own shares in both Microsoft and Yahoo!.â¦
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) Web network  MySpace has been in talks for several months with online  auction company eBay Inc.  about a partnership, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people  familiar with the matter.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is discussing swapping social networking Web site MySpace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
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HE ALREADY OWNS myspace.com and now it looks like media mogul Rupert Murdoch wants to infiltrate the social-networking upstart Facebook. It has been reported that he wants to set up an official Sky-branded group on the site to promote the broadcaster's services.
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Viacom Inc.  has ruled out bidding for social networking site Facebook, despite suffering a stinging defeat in losing a deal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to purchase MySpace.com, chairman Sumner Redstone told U.S. journalist Charlie Rose in a televised interview.
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Media & professional: Rupert Murdoch will not raise his $5bn (Â£2.5bn) bid for the Wall Street Journal's owner, Dow Jones.
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LOS ANGELES, June 20  /PRNewswire/ -- Internet Entrepreneur and MySpace Founder Brad Greenspan today announced that he is leading an investment group seeking to take a non-controlling stake in Dow Jones Corp. .  On June 19, 2007, Mr.
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Social  networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the  past couple of years -- from News Corp.&#39;s ground-breaking  acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt  Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.&#39;s Logo network of Club Penguin and  DowneLink.com, respectively.