Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

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

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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The rise of the super-middlemen

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

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 — … Continue reading →

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Some quick thoughts about Google versus the newspapers

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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