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News Corp. says fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from the sale of assets and higher operating earnings in its film, cable networks and newspaper units.

New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman has submitted a $580 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday daily newspaper on Long Island, New York, matching a bid by News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, ... via Reuters UK

The top editor of The Wall Street Journal is planning to step down after less than a year on the job and four months after the paper was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., according to a person familiar with the situation.

Las Vegas -- Hulu CEO Jason Kilar hinted that the video site co-founded by NBC Universal and News Corp. could find its way to other platforms, saying that many of them, such as mobile phones, would be "ripe for the Hulu experience."

CBS Interactive president Quincy Smith and his team may be focusing on how to monetize the social-networking craze, but he has hardly lost sight of Hulu.

Speaking Tuesday, the day before the NBC Universal-News Corp. venture went live, Smith reiterated that he is talking to the two Hulu partners all the time but declined to comment directly on whether CBS may join the fray.

Hulu, the broadband-video site developed by NBC Universal and News Corp., will open to the general public Wednesday.

Hulu had been a in a private beta since October and a semi-private beta since last month. In addition, Hulu announced deals to bring content from Warner Bros.

Television Group, Lionsgate, the NBA and the NHL to the service.

The head of Hulu, the online-video joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., will deliver a keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters’ show in Las Vegas in April to discuss new delivery platforms for broadcasters' content.