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Murdoch's Record On Digital Sketchy

  • Mediaweek, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:02 AM
When it comes to the Internet, it would be hard to call News Corp. timid. The conglomerate has as a history of online business endeavors, but it's a list of prolonged failures: Delphi Internet Services, iGuide and MySpace.

More recently, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chief (who once called Facebook the "flavor of the month"), has been railing against Google, while trying to turn back the clock in the newspaper business by installing pay walls on his Web sites. Soon, News Corp. will unveil "The Daily," a subscription newspaper for tablet devices like the iPad. The company is said to be hiring 100 journalists and spending $30 million.

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