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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry Sky men: in the blue corner, British Satellite Broadcasting. In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry men: in the blue corner, ON Digital.
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
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]
Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.
Blog Rupert Murdoch has said that he'll probably take his content out of Google, and hinted very strongly he and other newspaper groups are in discussion over paywalls. Leaving aside the question of anti-trust - and whether, given Murdoch's extremely...
[November 9, 2009, 13:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My namesake Mr Murdoch is feeling the pressure from Freeview and digital cable, and as a result he's reported to be pondering giving away his Sky+ personal video recorder boxes. It's Rupert and the Sky Gnomes!
[August 5, 2005, 18:35]
Less than an OS, less than free
Blog Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Google has spent most of the time it probably wanted to be talking about Chrome discussing the value of paid content on the Web; but that's actually an awful lot of what Chrome is really for.
[November 25, 2009, 9:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a company called NDS -- based in London but with labs in Jerusalem -- which does R&D for Rupert Murdoch's broadcasting interests. Monday 11/03/2002 Here's a strange one. In particular, it does encryption for pay-per-view and other digital...
[March 18, 2002, 9:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Very frustrating, as anything that involves having to deal with BT, cable companies AND Rupert Murdoch is guaranteed to be. There's even another Rupert (hi there). Excited by digital TV yet? I ignored it for a while until I saw a Sky setup at a pal...
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Very frustrating, as anything that involves having to deal with BT, cable companies AND Rupert Murdoch is guaranteed to be. There's even another Rupert (hi there). Excited by digital TV yet? I ignored it for a while until I saw a Sky setup at a pal...
[October 29, 1999, 18:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Is this proof that Rupert Murdoch has done some good in the UK? Wednesday 11/1/2006 It is with great pleasure that I hand over today's diary to Graeme 'Scoop' Wearden, who has reclaimed his middle name in order to go out and do some good old...
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
News Corp. readies new-media push
News Murdoch, son of News Corp.head Rupert Murdoch, was promoted to executive vice president of News Corp. Digital Media, succeeding James Murdoch. Richmond, who was president of Fox Interactive, will hold the same title at News Corp.
[September 30, 1999, 10:18]
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]
News Corp cleared to purchase Intermix
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given the green light by US antitrust authorities to go ahead with its acquisition of Intermix Media. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it would not raise any objection to News Corporation's...
[August 23, 2005, 16:10]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch — the chairman of a newspaper, TV and internet empire that includes The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Hulu — warned earlier this month that his sites may soon disappear from Google's listings.
[November 23, 2009, 10:56]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
OneTel withdraws from UK mobile licence auction
News OneTel, backed by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, says that its business plans do not support a licence price in excess of £2.5m. A spokeswoman says that "licence bidding has exceeded everyone's expectations and OneTel was not prepared to buy a...
[April 6, 2000, 11:54]
News Corp seeks investor in satellite operation
News If there's any truth to the speculation that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp wants to join forces with an Internet or high-tech company, then AOL Time Warner may not yet have a monopoly on the new media market.
[March 1, 2000, 13:36]
