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Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in the media - when the News Corp butterfly flaps its wings, a tornado bursts over the media landscape somewhere. In the words of one panellist,... [30 Sep 2009]
iPlayer reaches for the Sky
News BBC iPlayer is now accessible via BSkyB's online TV service, Sky Player. Sky Player now has several BBC-branded sections that include programme listings and links to iPlayer content, which redirect users to the BBC's media player after... [20 Oct 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Prior to The Carphone Warehouse, Post made his name at Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB as group IT and strategy director, where he was responsible for a complete organisational and process transformation and an... [11 Jun 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch signalled Monday that he may not be totally against joining with Microsoft. According to Reuters, Murdoch said at an event Monday: "[It] depends on the deal. In... [22 Apr 2008]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Media mogul and head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch was placed at number two, in part due to his company's ownership of social-networking site MySpace, which was acquired in 2005 for $580m. Jobs took... [29 Nov 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Murdoch, quoted by... [14 Nov 2007]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Unlike, say, Rupert Murdoch at 29, a man whose longevity as a trend setter and as a silicon.com Agenda Setter stretches out behind him. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away... [15 Oct 2007]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile While other broadcasters - perhaps Rupert Murdoch aside - struggle to adapt to the internet and the fast-changing media landscape, Highfield, as head of the Future Media and Technology unit, continues to... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: How and why?
AS Analysis Unlike, say, Rupert Murdoch at 29, a man whose longevity as a trend setter and as a silicon.com Agenda Setter stretches out behind him. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away... [12 Oct 2007]
Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile Murdoch is a man who has shaped modern media to a greater degree than any other individual, revitalising an ailing newspaper industry and pioneering satellite TV. Murdoch suffered a cancer scare in 2000,... [12 Oct 2007]
Emily Bell
AS Profile As a journalist, Bell has written widely on media issues and has even interviewed fellow Agenda Setter Rupert Murdoch, who ranks below her in this year's Top 50. The rise of a younger, more natively... [12 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis There are two Murdochs in this year's 50 - with son James, at 22, outstripping dad Rupert this time, who sits at 29 - and remains the only individual to make every Agenda Setters list. In a similar vein to Charles... [12 Oct 2007]
Social networking goes mainstream
AS Analysis Rupert Murdoch was also given credit for his decision to put big bucks into social networking by buying MySpace. So it's very much a case of out with the old, in with the new - as one Agenda Setters... [12 Oct 2007]
Surprise omissions and trends
AS Analysis Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Niklas Zennström, Rupert Murdoch, Ashley Highfield - they have all been at or nearly at the top in past years, though it still holds true that no one person has ever topped the... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment Past number ones include Ray Ozzie (now at Microsoft), Ashley Highfield (BBC), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, Chris Gent (Vodafone) and former AOL top dog Steve Case - remember him? [13 Sep 2007]
