• September 27th, 2012

    Murdoch Finally Invites The Google Spiders To Search London Times

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    Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch closed the London Times down with a paywall, preventing even Google from perusing the stories contained within. Approximately 200,000 subscribers later (or 130,751 if you’re to believe PaidContent), the experiment was clearly a failure. Now Murdoch is opening up the paper to search engines, although they will only get two lines of each story, thereby ensuring Google is… → Read More

    January 3rd, 2012

    Murdoch’s Wife’s Twitter Account, @Wendi_Deng, Was Fake

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    Following media mogul Rupert Murdoch‘s arrival on Twitter this week, wife Wendi Deng (@wendi_deng) showed up shortly afterwards, tweeting alongside her husband, flirting with comedian Ricky Gervais, politely declining to engage with the man who attacked Mr. Murdoch with a piepushing @rupertmurdoch to take down a questionable tweet (which he did), and generally being a spicy character worthy of… → Read More

    July 18th, 2011

    LulzSec Hacks Murdoch-Owned ‘The Sun,’ Redirects Homepage To @LulzSec Twitter Account

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    Looks like hacker group LulzSec is back in action, this time redirecting the homepage of the Murdoch-owned The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/) to a fake story about Murdoch’s death located on the UK Time’s URL http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun. → Read More