A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch’s News International.

After an “Arab spring”, it’s been a summer of security breaches. But, while the press, politicians and police chiefs turn themselves inside-out over voicemail “hacking”, each is overlooking the root cause - lax data security rules.

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Below are Hinton’s resignation letter to old friend and boss Rupert Murdoch and memo to the…

The newest voicemail hacking scandal that has engulfed the UK tabloid News of the World was described by one commentator today as a “slow motion train wreck.” Now that train wreck is threatening to derail the newspaper’s owner, News International.

Some of the thinking behind News Corp.‘s attempt at aggregating its rivals’ news publications on tablets devices will live on despite being partially aborted by the publisher.

Another stat has come across our bows, aside from Tuesday’s second release of digital numbers from Times Newspapers (analysis)... The proportion of iPad owners who created a Times account during last summer’s free trial and who later paid to subscribe proper is 0.82 percent.

The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” - many are confused exactly how they are impacted and are quickly seeking clarity from Apple.

The cacophony from people not “getting” The Daily is deafening. Many ridicule the new publication for not updating every minute of every day, like yet another bloody Twitter feed. They’re overthinking it - this is exactly its raison d’être.

With News Corp.‘s belief in the tablet opportunity ongoing, its UK newspapers tried snagging what it expected would be an army of new iPad owners on Christmas Day. The Times and The Sun each said they were using iPad to break with a century-old British tradition of not publishing an…

Rupert Murdoch is clearly looking to tablets as a post-print, post-web model for salvation. But, if the new News Of The World iPad edition is anything to go by, he may need several iterations before that happens…

The Times and Sunday Times had always intended to launch more niche pay-for digital products than just their eponymous websites and iPad apps. Now the first such niche off-shoot is here… The Times’ monthly science supplement Eureka is getting the iPad treatment. It’s usually bundled for “free” with the newspaper,…

We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a new national U.S. news title via iPad and mobile phone apps.

Times Newspapers in the UK is giving its early iPad customers a free one-month subscription for the second time in as many months, in an attempt to migrate readers to a more stable version of the app.

When The Times debuted its £9.99-a-month iPad edition in May, it launched without any built-in way for readers to pay again for a second month. That risks leaving many readers out there with old Times editions on their iPad - and having to go back to iTunes Store for the…

News Corp.‘s UK daily tabloid has followed The Times to Apple’s tablet, with an app edition that, at £4.99 a month, is half as much as its serious stablemate. Renewing via iOS’ recurring subscription, the price equates to £0.20 a day, £0.10 cheaper than in print, and includes two user…

It may not qualify as irony but it is a lovely coincidence: the same week that The Times and The Sunday Times go behind a paywall, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is at a Southern California resort celebrating a franchise that so far doesn’t include subscriptions…

The Times’ iPad edition, which went on sale along with the tablet’s UK debut Friday morning, sold 5,000 copies in three days, News Corp.‘s CEO Rupert Murdoch told AllThingsD’s D8 conference Tuesday, at which he also spoke about the true value of content (see our full post). At the app…

The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad’s international launch Friday morning. Yes, it’s pay-for, but there’s an entirely different pricepoint from the new websites, which will soon charge £1 a day, £2 a week or free with print… It’s…

—Timeses’ apps: As the papers’ new pay-for sites launched, so, too, did iPhone apps, with no fanfare, ME spotted, though there’s confusion out of The Times on whether they’re really new. The deal - £2 a week for a hideous digital replica, better plain-text stories and weird text-to-speech audio. —3UK’s…