No. 8 Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO, News Corp
Last year's position: 18
Back with a vengeance after last year's absence from the top 10, Murdoch won't go away. The Aussie tycoon is finding it harder to retire than a punch drunk prize fighter and, if anything, he seems to be reasserting a zest for business that had previously appeared to diminish.As such Murdoch remains the man to beat in terms of global media domination. What's more, some of the noises out of News Corp suggest he is finally 'getting' the internet and realising that, in order to succeed as a newspaper and television man, he must become a player online.
Rumour has it there is some serious cash being put into a war chest for internet acquisition and he'd apparently already looked more than once at Skype while pensively leafing through the pages of his chequebook before eBay beat him to it.
That money still exists and Murdoch is certainly into his legacy defining stage now. Isn't it about time he showed those young guns how to spend serious money? Our panel certainly seems to think so.
Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:
"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist
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Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom DigiTimes.com
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