In a perfect blending of my two favorite things to hate, Rupert Murdoch confirmed today that the Wall Street Journal will be available on the iPad. He tacked the announcement onto the tail end of the bigger news of a New York Metro section coming to the paper this year. He also announced that the [...]
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December 2, 2009
Rupert Murdoch throws a temper tantrum and gets his way
Rupert Murdoch has been attacking Google (and the BBC) for months calling them a “parasite” and threatening to pull his sites from Google’s search index entirely. Now he may not understand the internet, or how pay walls work, but luckily some other people do. So after ranting and raving again yesterday at the Federal Trade [...]
November 19, 2009
Wired to come to e-readers
Makes sense right? Condé Nast, publisher of the tech magazine Wired, announced today that they are working with Adobe to bring the magazine to e-reading devices, to be available next year. Magazines have had trouble so far converting their products to e-readers, mostly due to the lack of color technology. But Condé Nast execs said [...]
November 16, 2009
Top Murdoch adviser leaving News Corp.
Gary Ginsberg, top adviser to Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of the year. Peter Chernin, president of News Corporation also left the company this past summer. The two men were the major Democratic leaders within News Corp, acting as liaisons between the fiercely conservative Murdoch and the [...]
November 16, 2009
News Corp. executive justifies the threatened Google block
Jon Miller, the head of digital efforts at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, finally gave The New York times a sensible justification for Murdoch’s threatened Google search block. “The traffic which comes in from Google brings a consumer who more often than not reads one article and then leaves the site,” he said. “That is the [...]
November 11, 2009
People still fascinated that Rupert Murdoch doesn’t know what the internet is
So I know this has got to be old news on here by now, but I just find it too funny. Confirming what I’ve been saying for past two days, today two separate articles were published discussing how Rupert Murdoch clearly doesn’t know how the internet works. You’d think it was old news by now [...]
November 10, 2009
Rupert Murdoch wants to sue BBC
Yesterday I reported how Rupert Murdoch hates the internet and wants to remove his newspapers from the Google Search Index in order to charge for online subscriptions. What I didn’t know yesterday was that in that same conversation (with Sky News in Australia), he also all but accused the BBC and Google of stealing their [...]
November 9, 2009
Murdoch wants to stop Google searches
Rupert Murdoch says he might remove content from his newspapers from Google’s Search Index. Though the official reasoning is to encourage readers to pay for online content, it is no secret that there is bad blood between the two giants. In recent months, Murdoch has accused Google of being a parasite on news organizations with [...]
