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[Newsweek] was working on a cover-story about exhaustion; since the president had recently taken a three-month sabbatical to recover from fatigue, its editors likely saw in Rudenstine the perfect cover-boy....In attempting to acquire an unflattering photo of Rudenstine, however, Newsweek crossed the line between good journalism...
If Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The Justice Department just derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction...
Murdoch also lacks a music division, one of the entertainment industry's most reliable profit centers. One solution would be to acquire EMI, known for such performers as Garth Brooks and Sinead O'Connor. Or Murdoch might go after the 15% stake in Time Warner, worth about $2 billion, that...
Ordinarily that kind of negotiation would be the job of a lower executive. Despite its global reach, News Corp. is in some ways very much a one-man show--the Murdoch show. MCI's investment represents, in effect, a $2 billion bet on Murdoch's savvy and vision. Which is...
Thursday's decision, though short of a complete exoneration, nonetheless seems certain to free Murdoch to re-energize his drive to build Fox into an equal of the NBC, CBS and ABC networks. The investigation slowed his progress, coming on the heels of two bold deals that sharply altered the...