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...switch over to technically superior digital signals. Underlying Clinton's maneuverings is a serious question for a democracy: does free speech include the right of wealthy special interests to drown out the voices of those who can't afford TV ads? Democrats as well as NewsCorp head Rupert Murdoch, whose scrappy Fox network is fight ing its larger competitors for market share, have emerged as advocates of free TV. But many Republicans, led by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, counter that the problem with politics is not that there's too much money, but rather that there' s too little. They...
...past 18 months has made Masayoshi Son something closer to the Napoleon of the multimedia business. First he swallowed Ziff-Davis, the American computer-magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid $1.5 billion for 80% of California-based Kingston Technology, the world's largest maker of computer...
...business tradition. "When we started Softbank," says Son, "we didn't have money, we didn't have experience, people, talent or infrastructure. That was the first stage, and now we are on to the second and third stages." He likes to tell the tale of his joint venture with Murdoch: it was last April, and Murdoch's office called to ask if the Softbank chairman would speak at a News Corp. reception in Tokyo. Son's assistant, protective of his schedule and not recognizing the Murdoch name, dutifully turned down the request. "'Wow, no!' I told her," Son recalls. "'This...
AILING. IRIS MURDOCH, 77, philosophical British novelist; of Alz-heimer's disease; in Oxford, England...
...Your broker? Maybe you could ask him how long he thinks this bull market can last. I mean, as long as you have him right there on the phone. Also, you don't know Rupert Murdoch's number off hand, do you? Maybe we should give him a call...