"We truly believe that what you can measure, you can manage. Hara provides us with the tools and support needed to reduce energy usage and improve operational efficiencies while minimizing our environmental impact," said Vijay Sudan, manager of Energy Initiatives at News Corporation. "After evaluating numerous solutions, we selected Hara due to the intuitive nature as well as the breadth and depth of the Hara solution -- which we expect will take us far beyond carbon accounting and help us plan and implement energy reduction strategies while reducing carbon emissions."

"Hara is a unique solution that enables global businesses with complex organizational structures to efficiently gain an understanding of their entire organizational metabolism -- empowering them to reduce their impact on the environment, as well as to create operational efficiencies that impact their bottom line," said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and co-founder of Hara. "An organization as large and diverse as News Corporation has a distinct opportunity to influence environmental impact reduction across an entire industry, and we're pleased to be a strategic partner in this undertaking."

About Hara EEM

Hara Environmental and Energy Management (Hara EEM), a comprehensive software-as-a-service solution, enables organizations to holistically monitor and manage their natural resource consumption and environmental impact. Hara EEM enables organizations to identify and implement sustainable initiatives across organizational and value chain stakeholders. Hara customers are using Hara EEM to identify millions of dollars in savings from energy, water and waste abatement strategies while reducing their carbon emissions.

About Hara

Hara helps organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and minimizing environmental impact. The Hara(TM) Environmental and Energy Management solution gives customers auditable transparency and control of their organizational metabolism -- the collective resources consumed and expended by an organization -- including energy, water, waste, carbon and other resources. Leading organizations use Hara solutions to manage their environmental record and leverage best practices in order to improve their operational efficiency, maximize shareholder value and manage risks. For more information, please visit www.hara.com.

SOURCE: Hara

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"We are working all very, very hard at it but I wouldn't promise that we are going to meet that date," Mr Murdoch said during a conference call with journalists on Thursday (AEDT).

"It's a work in progress and there is a huge amount of work going on, not just with our sites but with other people."

Asked about the delay, Mr Murdoch said he was "not prepared to comment on that at all".

News Corp, which owns local newspapers such as The Australian, The Herald Sun and The Daily Telegraph, had flagged in August plans to charge users of the group's newspaper websites.

Other newspapers in News Corp's global stable include the New York Post, the UK's The Sun and The Times.

News Corp also owns the The Wall Street Journal, which charges users for some online content.

The Wall Street Journal, bought by News Corp in 2007, has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the US and WSJ.com has more than one million paid subscribers.

News Corp reported an 11 per cent rise in first quarter net income to US$571 million.

First quarter consolidated operating income, or earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), was up nine per cent.

But the company's newspapers and information services segment reported a US$109 million fall in first quarter operating income.

Mr Murdoch said the outlook for the group was encouraging.

"As we look ahead I am seeing some encouraging trends in most of our businesses," Mr Murdoch said.

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