Aug 21

NBC News app for Xbox 360 brings streaming show clips to the console

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While NBC News is no longer rocking the MS tag on its name, it’s still tight with the Redmond crew and just launched a new app on the Xbox 360. Its well hidden section on the Inside Xbox channel got a refresh just last year, but the new app should bring even more clips of breaking news, features and commentaries culled from its various shows. As you can see in the screenshot it brings the content in the now-familiar grid style of menus (or whatever Microsoft is calling it) with Kinect support and the like. You can find it on your console now, just in case you needed another place to love / hate Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and all the rest.

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NBC News app for Xbox 360 brings streaming show clips to the console originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 16

It’s official: Comcast buys out Microsoft’s share of MSNBC

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Breaking up is hard to do, and it took Microsoft and NBC a few more days to hammer out all the details and make it official. NBC is buying the software maker’s half of the MSNBC website for a reporter $300 million, which will be renamed NBC News — a change which has already taken place if you try to hit up the old site. Its HQ will also move across from Microsoft’s hub in Redmond to New York. Following the split, Microsoft is apparently readying its own news service for launch later this year, aiming to hire around the same number of people that were put to work on the previous site — and looking to improve on its recent online fortunes.

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It’s official: Comcast buys out Microsoft’s share of MSNBC originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBC.com to get friend-zoned

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Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBCcom to get friendzonedMicrosoft and NBC have had what you might call a complicated relationship. They’ve been separated in the TV space ever since MSNBC became a solely NBC-owned entity in 2005, but the online fling has carried on to this day. If Daily Beast‘s tipsters are right, however, NBC may get a little less ambiguous with its relationship status and kick Microsoft to the curb. The now Comcast-owned NBCUniversal is supposedly irked at having to share equal control over the MSNBC website and wants to send Microsoft packing, buying out Redmond’s 50 percent stake. While the existing management would stay, MSNBC’s online staff would quit Microsoft’s campus and hop over to an NBCNews.com domain to reflect their newfound independence. An NBC representative wouldn’t confirm that an agreement had been signed, but did say talks had taken place — certainly much more of a response than most rumors get. With a signed deal rumored in a matter of “days,” there won’t be long to wait before we learn whether or not Microsoft gets dumped once and for all.

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