Tag: rupert murdoch

News Corp pull Google content

Posted on 11/09/09 in News, 1 Comment

Following on from our post The End of Free?, Rupert Murdoch has announced that News Corp will be pulling all their content from Google once their sites move to subscription based models. This is an interesting development and one that may signify the decline of Google, Bing etc as all encompassing sources of news. If [...]

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The End of ‘Free’?

Posted on 10/08/09 in News, 2 Comments

There is a growing – nay, inexorable – movement towards the school of thought that ‘free’ content is not a sustainable business model. Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the biggest evangelist – the FT has proved that online subscription models can work in the UK. The screening of the forthcoming England v Ukraine game on a [...]

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