What Rupert Murdoch Still Doesn’t Get About the Internet
February 6th, 2010 admin
Topics: @not for syndication, apple, content, GigaOM, ipad, news corp, nws, product, rupert murdoch, web

Rupert Murdoch knows who’s winning the war between big media and the Internet. Unsurprisingly, it’s Rupert Murdoch. “Without content, the ever-larger and flatter screens, the tablets, the e-readers and the increasingly sophisticated mobile phones would be lifeless,” he proclaimed when News Corp. posted unexpectedly strong fiscal 2010 second-quarter earnings . “Devices and platforms are proliferating but this clever technology is merely an empty vessel without any great content….
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