Peter Kafka has the scoop over at AllThingsDigital. He’s reporting that Greg Clayman, formerly of Viacom, is going to head NewsCorp’s new tablet news unit (or whatever they end up calling it).
I’ve pretty much assumed that this would happen, and I’m pretty sure it will also fail. But I never really explained why. It comes [...]
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I think Murdoch’s tablet newspaper will fail
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
NewsCorp to launch tablet focused news organization – FAIL
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
Financial Times are reporting:
News Corp is nearing a decision on whether to start a news organisation to provide content for a subscription application on digital tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad, according to people close to the plans.
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If News Corp gives the green light to the tablet-centric news organisation plans, it will hire a new [...]
Borders are doomed, II
July 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
by anonymous
Editor’s note: This was submitted by a former employee of Borders who would prefer to remain anonymous.
I was an operations manager for Borders, and I am not at all surprised by the last post.
The biggest problem is that the borders website and the borders store are separate entities. It wasn’t until about a year [...]
