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Reborn News Corp. Targets Smartphones

News Corp., now spun off as the publishing arm of Murdoch's global empire, has a new aim: "to own the second screen," according to Chief Executive Robert Thomson, "dominating the smartphone market for news, entertainment and information," writes Lisa O'Carroll. In one example of this initiative, "we are working with Fox Sports and even the Wall Street Journal's quirky writers to develop a different kind of commentary for smartphones," Thompson says. 

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