Wall Street Journal

News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on January 28 at 8:00 am PT

News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg LP chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

Verizon Won’t Talk About Its Talks to Build a Netflix-Style Service. But It Is Definitely Talking.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2011 at 7:46 am PT

Because pretty much everyone is talking about building their own Web video service. But like pay TV competitor Dish Network, Verizon seems to be taking the idea seriously.

The Surveillance Catalog

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Zachary M. Seward, Julia Angwin, Courtney Banks, Scott Thurm and Ashkan Soltani, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 19, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Wait a Minute. Does Google Really Want to Be a Cable Guy?

Peter Kafka in Media on November 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Running a cable TV operation is an expensive, messy, un-Googley business. Which is why there’s no way Larry Page is going to do that, says Sanford Bernstein.

2011 Technology Innovation Awards

John M. Leger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 17, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

If you think start-ups have a monopoly on innovation, think again. Some of the world’s biggest companies are among the winners of The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards this year.

New Heat for Google CEO

Thomas Catan And Amir Efrati in News on August 26, 2011 at 5:24 pm PT

Behind Google Inc.’s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years.

BlackBerry’s New Music Service Doesn’t Sound Like a Complete Disaster

Peter Kafka in Media on August 19, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

No need to replicate iTunes or Spotify or anything else that’s already on the market. If BBM Music thinks small — and it looks like it is — it could work.

How Media Companies Play With Steve Jobs’s New Rules: Give In, Go Around or Compromise

Peter Kafka in Media on August 10, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

How Apple’s subscriptions terms are forcing everyone from Amazon to The Wall Street Journal to make touch choices.

News Byte

News Corp. Executive Rebekah Brooks Finally Resigns

Peter Kafka in Media on July 15, 2011 at 4:43 am PT

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled head of the News Corp. unit at the center of the PhoneGate scandal, has resigned. Her departure has been expected for a couple weeks, despite News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch’s repeated declarations of support. In other PhoneGate news, Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal that his company had made “minor mistakes,” but that reports that he might sell or spin off his newspapers are “pure rubbish.” News Corp. owns this Web site.

Hulu Plays Along With Apple’s New Rules. Who’s Next?

Peter Kafka in Media on June 20, 2011 at 5:48 am PT

Apple’s new subscription rules mean publishers like Hulu have a choice: Give Apple 30 percent of new sales, or make it less easy for users to buy your content. Hulu went for option B. Now let’s see what Netflix, Rhapsody and Amazon do.