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Murdoch launches bid to rule news in the iPad age
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who parlayed a small Australian newspaper company into one of the world’s biggest conglomerates, promised yesterday to “re-imagine” the newspaper and “make the business of newsgathering and editing viable again”, as he launched the first daily newspaper exclusively for tablet computers.
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Citigroup takes over record label EMI
LOS ANGELES – Citigroup Inc. has taken over debt-strapped EMI Group Ltd., closing a disastrous purchase of the…
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Red Alert | Oklahoma’s red-dirt darlings land a record deal after a chance encounter
Used to be, the Red Dirt Rangers were like every other country band out there — chasing the Holy Grail of a Nashville record deal. But the longer they were in the music business, and the more they got to know about it, the less appealing that prospect became. Most deals with major labels — especi… By Mike Easterling.
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