Entries from SFist tagged with 'rupertmurdoch'
February 13, 2008
So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? In an attempt to rejuvenate Yahoo and fend off Microsoft's advances, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is reportedly in talks to purchase Yahoo. Although claiming that his company is "not interested in buying Yahoo," the Merc reports: The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp., reported Wednesday that its parent company is considering taking a stake in Yahoo that could exceed......
Continue Reading "Rupert Murdoch to Buy Yahoo!?"January 3, 2008
Oh my God, you guys, no way. Get this: the New York Post was wrong. What's next: Intelligent Design? Celebrity weddings? Our meth-induced epiphanies that the CIA, in cahoots with the NorteƱos, are reading our emails and listening in on our phone calls? See, it seems that "[n]o slingshots have been found" and that the NY Post was wrong. And we refuse to believe anything Rupert Murdoch-related is less than perfect. Thankfully, according to......
Continue Reading "Tiger Attack Update: No Slingshots?"October 17, 2007
With Facebook winning over many of its users these days, MySpace is all set to open up a San Francisco location near AT&T Park in an effort get hip, or something like that. What's more, the Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation-owned site plans to hire over 200 new employees, redesign the site, and allow users to add widgets. Fear not MySpace suicide contemplators; you might not have to take jump. This comes on the heels......
Continue Reading "MySpace to Open SF Office This Week"November 20, 2006
Basically, it's the rule of all the -ist's that each -ist gets to cover anything that has some tangential connection to it's place of locale. Which means that one of the things that we could cover if so we wanted to is O.J. He was a local boy after all and played for the pre-Walsh 49ers. We've even gotten a few e-mails wondering where our O.J. coverage is. Well, all of that is true. So here's your bit of O.J. news for the day: all things O.J. are being cancelled...
Continue Reading "About O.J."February 27, 2006
Man, here we are all nostalgic listening to Endtroducing, and the blogosphere pays us back with some serious synchronicity -- all sorts of funky-fresh music! We're totally drooling over this new Soul Sides compilation from O-Dub, on vinyl no less! Kid Kameleon posts not one, not two, but three mixes from three different DJs, including one of his own. Mesh SF presents a "motherlode" of the 40oz. show. And while this is kinda old,......
Continue Reading "Bay Area Blog Pulse"August 10, 2005
Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading these reviews: "As for the content of the pods, they're just wide-ranging enough to be officially 'diverse,' while remaining remarkably bland in tone." -- Dana Stevens, Slate [thanks, George!] "So far it seems like a cross between 'Saved by the Bell:......
Continue Reading "The Reviews Are In: Nobody Likes Current TV"October 19, 2004
How do you know our esteemed First Couple has it made it? First there was big story in the New Yorker and now this- they made the New York Post gossip column! We are are so honored. According to the Post, Court TV anchor and part-time New York habituƩ Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom was quite a hit as she gave a speech at the Empire State Pride Agenda fund raiser, subbing in for the hubbie......
Continue Reading "Kimberly Takes Manhattan"