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Murdoch Planning Search Acquisition
News News Corp is in talks to buy a stake in an unnamed search engine as part of its plan to create a major portal and expand on the Internet, Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said this week. We are in advanced negotiations to buy a controlling interest...
[August 15, 2005, 17:15]
Murdoch Warns Of Disruptive Effects Of Technology
News Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has issued a powerful warning of the disruptive force that technology can inflict on traditional business models. In a speech in London on Monday night, Murdoch said that today's Internet pioneers were the heirs to the...
[March 14, 2006, 14:10]
Murdoch Tips Free Digital Recorders
Talkback Murdoch strategy. The cost of future DVR would play into Mr. Rewritable Atomic Holographic Storage raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc.highest analog / digital capacity available lowest cost per gigabyte longest archive...
[September 10, 2003, 4:35]
Murdoch's News International Enters Online Auctions
News UK auction sites have a fight on their hands next month as Rupert Murdoch enters the fray. News International's online business subsidiary, News Networks, is to launch an auction site on February 25 that will compete directly with UK sites such as...
[January 25, 2000, 6:03]
Murdoch, BT Spot Net Gains
News Available from January 1997, Springboard is a jointly-owned news service designed for the mass consumer market. It will carry content from News International titles as well as local news. The service will be personalised and multimedia rich, said BT.
[September 26, 1996, 16:48]
News Corp. Readies New-media Push
News Digital Media, succeeding James Murdoch. Murdoch, son of News Corp.head Rupert Murdoch, was promoted to executive vice president of News Corp. Richmond, who was president of Fox Interactive, will hold the same title at News Corp.
[September 30, 1999, 10:18]
News Corp Rules Out Fighting Microsoft For Yahoo
News Rupert Murdoch said on Monday that News Corp would not get into a fight with Microsoft over Yahoo, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected. Murdoch's company has been in talks with Yahoo over a transaction to combine News...
[March 11, 2008, 7:18]
Gates In Bid For Football Rights
News Bill Gates is to go head to head with Rupert Murdoch in an effort to gain television rights for premier league football, it is reported. Murdoch-owned BSkyB currently owns the rights to televise premier league matches but those rights expire in 2001.
[September 20, 1999, 9:22]
News Corp Still Open To Joint Yahoo Bid
News News Corp's Rupert Murdoch left the door open on Monday to a joint bid with Microsoft to buy Yahoo, a day ahead of Yahoo's quarterly financial report. Murdoch also repeated earlier remarks about not having the financial firepower to top Microsoft's...
[April 22, 2008, 8:59]
News Corp To Float Internet Businesses
News For years Rupert Murdoch has downplayed the value of the Internet but on Wednesday the media giant announced that over the next few months he intends to float some of News Corp's online properties, the clearest indication yet that he has made an...
[November 4, 1999, 12:52]
Researchers Devise Chip And PIN Crack
News In the prototype system built by Drimer and Murdoch, the chip has been removed from the modified card, and wires to the card run up the sleeve of an attacker and connect to the laptop in a rucksack. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the...
[February 6, 2007, 6:00]
Sky To Introduce Free Broadband
News BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch announced today that the company will start selling broadband services to its eight million Sky TV subscribers on one of three packages. According to Murdoch, the company is pushing for partial, rather than full...
[July 18, 2006, 15:50]
$100m UK Internet Fund Launched
News The new fund is headed up by three UK Internet veterans: Simon Murdoch, former UK managing director and Europe Vice President for e-commerce giant Amazon.com; Richard Tahta, former strategic development director for Amazon.com in Europe; and Perry...
[January 19, 2000, 9:21]
Bookpages Aims To Be UK's Amazon.com
News Tesco was number two in UK supermarkets and became the number one through smart initiatives," said Simon Murdoch, managing director. Murdoch claimed that Bookpages receives about 2,000 visitors per day.
[September 10, 1997, 8:00]
Startup Spotlight: Chase Episode I
News But perhaps more valuable than any amount of cash are the group's founders, who bring to the table years of experience with two of the UK's biggest Internet and computing firms: Simon Murdoch, former UK managing director and Europe Vice President...
[January 19, 2000, 8:51]
Tuesday
Blog Mr Chernin's day job is president of News Corp.a company owned by Rupert Murdoch, and his expertise in such matters is thus beyond reproach. However, he went on to say that the amoral lawlessness of the Internet was so profound as to prevent any of...
[August 23, 2002, 15:58]
AOL UK Sale 'not Threatened' By Portal Ambitions
News Only two weeks ago, BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch was quoted as saying his company would be "opportunistic" about buying AOL UK, around which he said there were still "a lot of question marks". Otherwise, we're very, very comfortable with...
[August 1, 2006, 13:55]
One.Tel Goes Belly Up
News Late today, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission launched an investigation into One.Tel, following the referral of information from the Australian Stock Exchange and concerns raised by James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch, who claim to...
[May 30, 2001, 8:40]
Google Trumps Microsoft In UK Power Elite
News In 2001, he was ranked second only to Rupert Murdoch. The top 100 was headed by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation. The ever-lengthening shadow of Google has now fallen over the UK's media sector according to this year...
[July 12, 2004, 13:45]
Sun Kicks Off JavaOne With OpenSolaris
Blog Joined by Debian ‘inventor’ Ian Murdoch who now fills the role of Sun’s VP developer & community marketing, the pair explained that essentially OpenSolaris is out there as open-source, but it has the backing of Sun as a company behind it to...
[May 6, 2008, 1:47]
