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Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option

February 11, 2010
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In an interesting piece on the problems at MySpace under Murdoch, Om Malik mentions this: Kevin also mentioned that Murdoch, and every large media company, need to think like startups. Good advice – but only to a point. The fact is that News Corp (like all major media companies) can currently make more money online [...]

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Mark Cuban sums up why Rupert Murdoch doesn’t care about Google

November 9, 2009

In the comments to his points on why ““Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all“, Mark Cuban gives the best summary about why all the traffic that Google brings to News Corp isn’t worth diddly: “[News Corp] have tons of unsold inventory of ads right now. They dont need [...]

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The rise of the super-middlemen

October 21, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Ken Doctor on Rupert’s attempt to get people to pay for news: “When you hear Murdoch and other publishers justifiably scream about Jeff Bezos’ hard bargain — he keeps customer relationships and 70% of the revenue — you understand that they see the multi-platform future becoming real and want to be in [...]

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Some quick thoughts about Google versus the newspapers

April 5, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Rupert Murdoch has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with his comments about Google: “Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to Google Thursday, accusing the search giant of poaching content it doesn’t own and urging media outlets to fight back. “Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?” asked [...]

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