Tag: Rupert Murdoch
Are we settling in for a season of merger mania? Over the past several days, speculation has underway that US satellite TV providers DIRECTV and Echostar, which owns DISH Network, would be hooking up. The two companies tried to get together in 2002, but US government regulators rejected the deal over antitrust concerns.
News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch believes things can be different this time, and says the deal would probably stand up to government scrutiny this time around. "I think it would be much harder for the government to turn it...
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A Business 2.0 exclusive list: Meet the executives, entrepreneurs, and cutting-edge innovators who are setting today's business agenda.
Any list of the most important people in business has to start with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and a bunch of folks named Walton, right? They're the richest people on the planet, for Pete's sake. Just break out the rubber stamps and be done with it.
Sorry, not this list. The names presented here weren't selected on the basis of fame, net worth, or the accomplishments of yesteryear.
News Corp.'s zealous embrace of interactivity soon will reach way beyond the runaway success of the social networking Web site MySpace when its majority-owned DirecTV decides on a path and partners for creating a national WiMax network.
Approval is imminent for the project that could take at least two years and $2 billion, providing News Corp. and DirecTV a valuable wireless interactive broadband loop with consumers to directly sell content, advertising, goods and services. WiMax is a wireless a broadband technology often referred to as...
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