Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But some of them are warming to its suggestion BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) should offer rival services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) over its own set top boxes.

Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Home Entertainment to license 250 films.

Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is finding its feet again under new owner Jesta Digital. It’s now live with a mobile and PC-based mobile internet service in Germany, its first…

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…

At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering with a popular game developer on the successful Angry Birds Rio. Now Stalbow has shifted from SVP-Mobile for *Fox* Digital to working with Vesterbacka directly as the…

Just in case you haven’t heard, the UK’s Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has managed to corral three of the key executives that were leading News Corporation, and its UK newspaper subsidiary News International, during one of the bigger scandals—full of illegal activities and corridors-of-power-intrigue—alleged to have occurred…

Tom Mockridge started his career as a national newspaper journalist working for the chief rival to Rupert Murdoch’s interests in Australia.

So, thank you and goodbye, News International? Goodbye Times, Sunday Times and Sun as well as the News of the World? Goodbye, for that matter, Sky News – and maybe even News Corp.‘s (NSDQ: NWS) 30% holding in BSkyB? (NYSE: BSY) The idea has been floating around ever since James…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the EU opens GSM frequencies for 4G services; Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reports earnings; Mobile Content Venture details launch plans for its mobile TV service in 32 U.S. markets; the first white iPhone 4 finally “on sale”; Nokia (NYSE:…

Television is often included on that list of industries Facebook executives enjoy casually mentioning will have to rebuild themselves around social engagement. Don’t look now, but Facebook may have just laid the foundation for that blueprint with the anticipated announcement that it will facilitate voting for American Idol contestants.

With a value of $3 million and a reach that can’t be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing weapons in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). arsenal. Getting one of the house spots is a great opportunity for The Daily—and…

The cost to News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) of getting MySpace in to shape? A big chunk of $275 million in the last three months of 2010 alone. That was the Q2 total for devaluing its Digital Media Group and for the MySpace restructure and layoffs, recorded as a pre-tax accounting…

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is now definitely looking for a MySpace buyer - but may yet retain part of the site. “With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business,” COO Chase Carey told analysts. “The new MySpace has been very…

The latest chapter in the transformation of Fox Mobile from its old position as neglected stepchild in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) family: the company is getting renamed Jesta Digital, and it is officially naming a new CEO, Jason Aintabi, who is also the U.S. president of the Jesta Group,…

Reports MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is due to make big layoffs and reduce to a skeleton international staff appear to have been lent credence by news its UK commercial VP is leaving.

We’ve picked up some more detail on News Corp.‘s sale of Fox Mobile Group to Jesta from a source close to the company. The mobile video service Bitbop will remain a going concern, along with all the rest of the division’s assets. Fox Mobile—rebranding to which becomes part of Jesta…

Earlier this year, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). confirmed it wanted to sell Fox Mobile. Now it appears that in the meantime, it’s cutting costs and keeping lean.