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College offers full scholarship for best tweet
Many high school students use Twitter and other social networking sites, procrastinating writing the dreaded college admissions and scholarship essays. Now, however, some administrators have started testing students’ social media skills, and a lot can ride on those 140 characters. USA Today reported that the University of Iowa is asking…
More than a million Twitter ‘apps’ registered
Twitter on Monday announced that the number of applications registered at the popular microblogging service has topped a million. Word of the milestone came as the San Francisco-based startup launched a new website at dev.twitter.com for software developers interested in tailoring fun, hip or functional programs for Twitter. “Application developers…
Brown accuses Murdoch papers of hiring criminals
Former prime minister Gordon Brown accused Rupert Murdoch’s media empire on Tuesday of using criminals to obtain his private documents, as MPs prepared to quiz police over phone hacking. In a major new twist in the row that led to the closure of the Murdoch-owned News of the World, Brown…
British ex-PM Brown hacked by multiple Murdoch papers: report
Former prime minister Gordon Brown had his phone hacked and bank account breached by several British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, reports said Monday. Paperwork seized from News of the World phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire by Scotland Yard had references to both Brown and his wife Sarah, according…
UPDATE: News Corp. alters BSkyB bid amid scandal, defers to commission’s decision
UPDATE 12:10 EDT: The Wall Street Journal has clarified, saying that News Corp. has merely altered the concessions it had added to its bid for BSkyB. Previously, News Corp. had offered to spin off its 24-hour Sky News channel to ward off concerns about media domination. From WSJ: News Corp.…
Murdoch fights to save BSkyB deal amid hacking row
Media baron Rupert Murdoch fought to keep his bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB alive on Monday, with the British government consulting watchdogs amid calls for their decision to be shelved. Murdoch has flown into London to take personal charge of the phone-hacking scandal that caused the demise of the 168-year-old…
Palin hints again at presidential aspirations: ‘The field is not yet set’
Former Alaska Gov. and newly minted documentary star Sarah Palin graces the cover of the most recent issue of Newsweek, and argues in the accompanying article that she could be a winning Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential race. “I believe that I can win a national election,” Palin told…
Murdoch in Britain as News of the World prints final edition
Britain’s News of the World was published for the last time on Sunday after the tabloid was axed amid the phone-hacking scandal, as its owner Rupert Murdoch flew in to take charge of managing the crisis. After 168 years of scoops and scandals, Britain’s top-selling weekly newspaper hit newsstands for…
Murdoch due in Britain to tackle hacking crisis
Rupert Murdoch was heading to London on Saturday to take charge of dealing with the phone-hacking scandal at Britain’s News of the World tabloid, as journalists prepared the paper’s final edition. The News Corp. chief was expected to arrive in Britain on Sunday, a company source said, just days after…
Police suspect a Murdoch executive deleted ‘millions of emails’
London police are investigating the possibility that an executive working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International deleted “millions of emails” in an attempt to thwart a phone hacking probe, reports said Friday. On two separate occasions, a senior executive is thought to have erased “massive quantities” of messages, according to The…
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