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Murdoch admits News Corp buying MySpace was a "huge mistake"

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:29:15 +0000

News Corporation's chief executive Rupert Murdoch admitted this week that the company's $580 million purchase of MySpace was a "huge mistake" and that the social networking site was mismanaged. Read more...

Murdoch could remove his sites from Google's index

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18:22 +0000

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said in an interview with Sky News Australia that newspapers within his empire - including the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal - could block Google searches entirely once they... Read more...

Murdoch fumes as Facebook overtakes MySpace

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:11:02 +0000

Facebook has overtaken rival social network MySpace for the first time - provoking an angry outburst from the man who paid $580m for MySpace only three years ago. Facebook had 123m unique visitors in May,... Read more...

Murdoch Won't Fight MS Over Yahoo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:31:07 +0000

Rupert Murdoch said on Monday that News Corp. would not get into a fight with Microsoft over the acquisition of search engine Yahoo, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected. His statement came... Read more...