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Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
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| But there's one gamble which does make some
| twisted sense: that Microsoft is an
| irrational consumer. It's easy to believe
| that it may spew senseless riches into
| publishers' pockets, radically distorting
| the news market, just to spite Google. In
| this case, Murdoch could be wringing cash
| out of a market he knows is doomed to
| implosion or assimilation. And he doesn't
| even have to be an evil genius, either: he
| just has to be smarter than Steve Ballmer.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/22/murdoch-microsoft-de.html
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
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| Microsoft has had discussions with News
| Corp over a plan that would involve the
| media companyâs being paid to âde-indexâ
| its news websites from Google, setting the
| scene for a search engine battle that could
| offer a ray of light to the newspaper
| industry.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fa243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1
Good fit. Two criminals (see below) joining forces.
Related:
Murdoch papers paid Â1m to gag phone-hacking victims
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| Rupert Murdoch's News Group NewsÂpapers has paid out more than Â1m to settle
| legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated
| involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking
Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
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| Piotr Wyspianski, a manager at Sitelynx, was revealed on the Waxy.org blog to
| have waged a one-man campaign to game web aggregation communities such as
| Digg, Metafilter and StumbleUpon with over a thousand links to Times Online
| stories. Before working for Sitelynx, he had form for a similar astroturfing
| effort for his own online jewellery store.
|
| Predictably, the Waxy.org story has hit the front page of Digg and some
| Diggers have piled in to condemn Times Online, blaming a conspiracy by the
| original Digger himself. "I haven't respected The Times since Murdoch bought
| it, since that effectively means I can no longer trust its content. Fuck you
| old man!" wrote one.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/times_online_link_spam/
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
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| The trial could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage awards.
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| NDS, which provides security technology to a global satellite network that
| includes satellite TV service DirecTV, denies the claims, saying it was only
| engaged in reverse engineering -- looking at a technology product to
| determine how it works, a standard in the electronics industry.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2334980420080424?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true
http://tinyurl.com/4lyhpc
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