Content may be the Emperor, but charging is King.

News Corporation was well advanced in setting up online charging for its newspapers around the world, chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has stated declaring the company on the threshold of a new era of profitability. News Corp was putting the finishing...

Microsoft & Murdoch Mull Gagging Google

Numerous reports are emerging that Microsoft and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, are in discussions about removing News Corporation indexes from Google and making its news content exclusively available on Microsoft’s Bing. FT.com was the first to report the...

People are willing to pay for online news content

If anyone doubted my previous blog regarding Rupert Murdoch’s claim that people would be willing to pay for online news content, the New York Times reports the following. Americans, it turns out, are willing to pay for their online news, but less so than people...