Rupert Murdoch

...November 5 2009 00:36 MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch's digital strategy, has fallen "significantly" short of expectations and is jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google. Weaker traffic means the...

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...analysis and opinion about the digital revolution. Posted on November 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM PT Did Rupert Murdoch wait way too long to fix MySpace? It's easy to get that impression from the News Corp. earnings call today. The takeaway: The...

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Rupert Murdoch Hates Google [Google] Rupert Murdoch says he'll bar Google from indexing any of his sites. Apparently Murdoch is under the impression that readers who come into his vast media empire (which includes Sun, The Times, The Wall...

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...to acquire Imeem on Wednesday. The news that Rupert Murdoch's MySpace was in talks to buy Imeem, a long struggling social-networking site focused on music, generated a lot of headlines on Tuesday. Judging from the glut of media...

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...to be competitors who do not charge, such as the BBC. Mr Murdoch refused to comment any further on the reasons for the delay, or on whether he was rethinking the promise entirely. The mogul was speaking after News Corp produced a 9 per...

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...have had it free all the time, and I think we've been asleep. " The ill will between Murdoch and Google is building on the back of significantly reduced traffic to MySpace. MySpace has a lucrative search deal in place with Google that may...

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...he's doing things, nobody does so more decisively and with greater impact than Murdoch. Take, for example, his destruction of U.K. union power at Wapping, his purchase and transformation of the old Metromedia television group into the Fox...

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...not the rule. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. was an odd suitor for then-booming networking site, MySpace, which is now an afterthought (or punch line) in the online social world ruled by Facebook and Twitter. Many similar disparate...

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...Twitter to do their social networking. Rupert Murdoch's new second-in-command at News Corp., Chase Carey, essentially admitted defeat in the social networking arena: "We're not trying to beat Facebook. We're not trying to beat Twitter. "

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