Inside Rupert Murdoch’s War on Google
The News Corp. chairman’s strategy for crippling rival Google has been more orchestrated than it seemed, a profile in this week’s New YorkM magazine reveals. And lest you doubt his intentions, Murdoch even named his effort after one of Julius Ceasar’s conquests for the Roman Empire.
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Apple’s iPad Gives Wings to Media Stocks
Correctly or naively, print publishers all seem to think the iPad, Apple’s (AAPL) new touchscreen tablet computer, is going to save their hides — and Wall Street seems to agree, at least cautiously.
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How the Grinch Stole Google News
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(With our sincere
apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Every Who down in Whoville liked Google a lot,
But the Grinch, who lived up
in a penthouse, did not.
The Grinch hated Google, didn’t find
Google pleasin’ –
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his views were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Whatever the reason, his heart or his views,
He came forth this autumn to tear down Google News,
Staring down from his suite with that cocked Aussie frown
At the warm lighted windows all over downtown.
For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath
Was Googling gifts and cheap holiday wreaths.
“Now they’re Googling stock picks!” he snarled with a sneer.
“Tomorrow’s Black Friday! It’s practically here!”
Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
“I must find some way to stop Google from running!”
For tomorrow, he knew, all the Who girls and boys
Would wake bright and early to rush out and buy toys!
And then! Oh, the news, news, news, news!
That’s one thing he hated! Google News, Google News!
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Massucci’s Take: Twitter CEO says Murdoch’s Google plan is doomed
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Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone said Thursday that Rupert Murdoch’s potential plan to block Google from searching New Corp.’s (NWS) websites is doomed to fail. Murdoch has accused Google (GOOG) of stealing content from his publications, which include The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post in the U.S., and The Times and The Sun in the United Kingdom. The cantankerous tycoon said last week that blocking Google could be part of his strategy to get more people to pay for content online.
Here’s a young man, all of 35, who runs a company that makes no money, telling an old man, 78, who runs companies that have made billions, that he is wrong. But while it’s easy to dismiss Stone’s comments as youthful bravado, I think he’s giving Murdoch some valuable advice.
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News Corp. to boycott Google? Don’t make me laugh (or wear a dress)
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A lot of publishers have been making angry noises recently about news aggregators, which have been profiting from content they played no part in creating while the content producers themselves go begging. But no publisher has yet shown the slightest willingness to take the incredibly simple step that would disrupt this state of affairs: block Google (GOOG) from indexing its stories.
Until now.
Of course it would be Rupert Murdoch, that pugnacious iconoclast, vowing to lead the charge. In a recent interview with his own Sky News Australia, the News Corp. (NWS) chairman said his company’s news sites will most likely make their stories invisible to Google once they’ve adopted a pay-to-read model, something he has promised is coming. Murdoch says he’s willing to sacrifice the millions of clicks his websites get from Google News and Web searches if it will help persuade readers to subscribe to WSJ.com, nypost.com and foxnews.com, to name a few.
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Newspaper circulation losses accelerate — except at The Wall Street Journal
It was a good six months to be The Wall Street Journal. It was a bad six months to be just about anyone else.
On Monday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations released its official figures for the half-year ending Sept. 30, and the picture they paint is no less grim for being thoroughly foreseeable. Average daily circulation for the 379 papers reporting to ABC was down 10.6 percent, a marked acceleration of the downward trend from recent reports. The story at 562 Sunday papers was only slightly better: a 7.5 percent decline.
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Murdoch’s ultimatum to Amazon: Give us Kindle subscriber names or else
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Rupert Murdoch’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. High-handed treatment from Amazon, that is.
On News Corp.’s fiscal-year-end earnings call with analysts, the notoriously shoot-from-the-hip mogul suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies.
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Rupert Murdoch denies he’s interested in the New York Times
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is shooting down speculation that he is interested in acquiring his nemesis The New York Times Co. (NYT).
Speaking to TheStreet.com, the News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch denied reports by Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff that he covets what he views as the symbol of liberal mainstream media. A combination of the Times and Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has been discussed ever since the tycoon snapped up the paper’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co., for $5.6 billion in 2007.
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Bloomberg News hires three Pulitzer winners with Wall Street Journal ties
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Bloomberg News today announced it was hiring three Pulitzer-prize winning journalists with ties to the Wall Street Journal, underscoring the media company’s strategy for scooping up talent amid widespread media layoffs.
The company, founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, picked up former Journal deputy managing editor Daniel Hertzberg, who left the paper after 32 years in June. His duties had included managing the paper’s overseas editions and foreign bureaus. Hertzberg will report to Matthew Winkler, a former Journal colleague who is now the editor-in-chief of the news service.
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