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What's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft? Here Are Five Possibilities!

Kara Swisher in News on November 24, 2009 at 4:34 pm PT

There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content online. The loudest voice in this fight has clearly been News Corp. kingpin Rupert Murdoch, who seemingly has not met a television interviewer of late he did not regale with tales of the search giant’s nefariousness. Murdoch has also tried to get Google’s biggest nemesis, Microsoft, involved in what has become a wrestling match over the future of news. But what’s really happening here? Here are five possibilities to consider.

No Tech Tapeworms Here! We Update Voices Policies on All Things Digital.

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2009 at 12:20 am PT

As of today, we have made important changes to the All Things Digital Voices section. Why? Well, a few weeks ago, ATD was caught up in a bit of the controversy that broke out due to louder-than-usual complaints by several traditional media companies about how their content is treated on the Web. Without going into a long explanation: They expressed displeasure that some sites were misusing their content via aggregation. Those complaining included the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones, which owns this site. The ensuing debate made us realize we needed to be a lot clearer and more explicit about what we are doing in our Voices section, which includes short excerpts of third-party content from outside our site, and to make those policies more prominent and transparent. Some will disagree with the changes we have made and some will not think they go far enough. But we hope we have addressed the key issues.