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Rupert Murdoch took a pay cut… Or did he? by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine October 3, 2014, 2:45 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons At face value, you might think that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken a pay cut since News Corp was split in two. But take a closer look, and it becomes all too clear that Murdoch has received a raise since the decoupling. Let's examine the numbers. Following the break-up of News Corp NWSA into 21st Century Fox FOX and the new News Corp in 2013, Murdoch's salary was reduced by $1 million from $8.1 million to $7.1 million. His annual cash bonus also went down from $12.5 million to $10.2 million. His stock awards, meanwhile, increased by around $1.2 million. While the 83-year old's pension grew by $5.4 million compared to an increase of $2.8 million in 2013, these figures have been excluded from his total pay figure because most boards claim they have no control over the amount of the increase year-on-year. So, Murdoch's overall total compensation went from $26 million in 2013 to $23.9 million in 2014, a decrease of around 8%. Such a decrease might be expected after the break-up of the Murdoch empire into two separate companies—21st Century Fox, which holds all the broadcast entities: Fox Broadcasting, Twentieth Century Fox Film, Twentieth Century Fox Television, Fox Sports, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, the National Geographic Channels, and BSkyB, among others; and News Corp, which holds all the print and related media: Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, HarperCollins, The New York Post, as well as Australian and British newspapers such as The Australian, The Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and The Sun. 21st Century Fox has a market capitalization of around $73.45 billion. News Corp has a market cap of around $9.44 billion. So News Corp represents just over 10% of the value of the two companies, thus the salary decrease seems appropriate given Murdoch's slightly decreased responsibilities. Except Murdoch is not just CEO of 21st Century Fox. He has other gigs. Yes, the empire was split in two and a new News Corp CEO—Robert Thomson, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, who is paid a lot less than Murdoch was as CEO—was installed. But that does not mean that Murdoch relinquished control, since he remains at News Corp as executive chairman. And what was his salary as executive chairman? $1 million. But, in addition to that, he received a cash bonus of $2.7 million and $5 million in stock awards. Taking both jobs into consideration, Murdoch's pay in 2014 comes to $32.6 million, an increase of more than 25% compared to the previous year. And in 2014, Murdoch vested in $19.4 million of restricted stock in the two companies from prior year awards, compared to only $4.3 million from the combined companies in 2013. Yet another increase. The News Corp demerger was supposed to unlock value for shareholders, since the print companies' losses were affecting overall profits at the company. But the changes seem to have also unlocked a good deal of cash for Rupert Murdoch.
News Corp. buying real estate listings site Move for $950 million by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine September 30, 2014, 8:24 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Wall Street Journal publisher News Corp. has agreed to pay $950 million to buy Move Inc., scooping up an online company that aims to connect real estate professionals with potential home buyers. Under the terms of the deal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. NWSA agreed to pay $21 per share for all outstanding shares of Move, a deal that is worth roughly $844 million based on the amount of shares Move had outstanding in July (News Corp.'s figure is net of Move's existing cash balances). The price News Corp. is offering is a roughly 37% premium to Move's MOVE closing price on Monday. News Corp. Chief Executive Robert Thomson said the deal will bolster the company's digital business, adding he expects News Corp. will use its media platforms and content to "turbo-charge traffic growth and create the most successful real estate website in the U.S." "In addition to boosting Move's subscription, advertising and software services, this acquisition will give News Corp a significant marketing platform for our media assets, which will benefit from the high-quality geographic data generated by real estate searches," said Thomson. Move's websites include realtor.com, move.com and seniorhousingnet.com. The company has more than 20 million monthly visitors, and has local and national advertising pacts with more than 400,000 real estate professionals. Move's revenue for the first six months of 2014 climbed 6.8% to $119.3 million from the year-earlier period, though the company swung to a net loss due to higher sales and marketing spending. Though fairly small, News Corp. sees a lot of growth potential for Move. It points out that more than five million homes in the U.S. are bought and sold each year, representing more than $1 trillion in annual transaction volume. Agents and brokers, meanwhile, are expected to spend about $14 billion this year on marketing homes, with an additional $11 billion to be spent by mortgage providers.
EBay splits and China gets iPhones — 5 things to know today by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine September 30, 2014, 8:30 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Good morning, friends and Fortune readers. Today is the final trading day of the third quarter, and stocks look set to rally at the open amid continued volatility and unrest overseas. Here's what else you need to know today. 1. The iPhone 6 is (finally) a go in China After delays for security concerns, Apple's AAPL iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be for sale in China on Oct. 17, according to Reuters reports. The sale date was approved after Apple was able to assure the Chinese government it wouldn't be able to give user data to the Us government. 2. Microsoft pulls back the curtain Windows 8 was, to put it lightly, a bit of a disaster. So when Microsoft MSFT previews part of the soon-to-be-released Windows 9 today, the company will likely be hoping it can start erasing users' bad memories. 3. Ebay is saying goodbye to PayPal Ebay EBAY has unveiled a plan to spin off PayPal in 2015 — a separation that activist investor Carl Icahn called for earlier this year. The move essentially splits Ebay into two equal halves, as PayPal currently accounts for about half of its revenue. 4. News Corp is on the Move Rupert Murdoch's media giant has made an acquisition, buying real estate website Move for $950 million. Reuters notes that the move was made to expand the company's presence in digital marketing. 5. Netflix is going after new releases Netflix NFLX has already changed the TV world through its award-winning series "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards." Now the streaming service wants to take on Hollywood. With the release of a sequel to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" scheduled for next year, Netflix is announcing in a big way that it wants to change the way movie releases work.
Fox withdraws bid for Time Warner by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine August 5, 2014, 5:14 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons 21st Century Fox announced on Tuesday its decision to withdraw an acquisition offer for paid television giant Time Warner. In a statement, CEO Rupert Murdoch called the bid for Time Warner a "unique opportunity to bring together two great companies." But he said that while his company's approach "had always been friendly," Time Warner management "refused to engage with us to explore an offer which was highly compelling." A deal would have made Fox, which is home to a vast array of television, cable and film properties, an even bigger player in the media world. Time Warner owns a huge paid television business including HBO, TNT and TBS. Fox had offered nearly $80 billion for Time Warner. But Time Warner rejected that overture last month. Murdoch also cited the reaction to Fox's share price, which slumped as a result, as another reason to withdraw the offer. He said that such response "undervalues our stock and makes the transaction unattractive to Fox shareholders." Meanwhile, following Fox's announcement that it was withdrawing its bid, Time Warner's shares fell 11% in after-hours trading. Fox also said that its Board of Directors authorized a $6 billion share buyback program to be completed in the next 12 months. But despite Murdoch's thoughts on the matter, it may not be the end of the road for a possible deal. The deal would have merged two companies that spun off their publishing assets. While 21st Century Fox sold News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal, Time Warner spun off Time Inc., the owner of Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and others.
Rupert and Time Warner by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine July 18, 2014, 5:49 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons For anyone wondering, in reading about Rupert Murdoch's bid to acquire Time Warner, whether he or she is suffering a case of Yogi Berra déjà vu all over again—relax. It did all happen before, and the last time it got really interesting. In the summer of 1983, the company then called Warner Communications (WCI) was in big trouble. The problem was its Atari division, which made games. But that bubble had burst, and a cascade of losses—they would exceed $1 billion, which was actually a sizable number in 1983—had begun. Worse, several Atari executives, having presciently foreseen the cataclysm that was about to overtake Atari financial results, sold their WCI stock at a time, and in a manner that one could argue was shrewd planning, but which the SEC preferred to see as insider trading. It was not a good time at Warner. In fact, it was a time when the inside joke at the headquarters at 75 Rock was that the next time someone heard a WCI executive say we were going to fund a transaction with a revolver, no one could be quite sure what that meant. Enter Rupert Murdoch, who had a nose for blood in the water that most sharks would envy. Here some of the information gets anecdotal. Supposedly, Murdoch told Warner CEO and founder (sort of) Steve Ross that he was interested in buying WCI stock. Reportedly, Steve told Rupert something like "fine with me—wise investment." Whether that feeling of good will and camaraderie lasted days, hours or minutes is a matter of some debate, but that is really unimportant. What is important is that Steve Ross quickly realized Rupert was coming after him at a time when all of Ross's resources, personal and financial, were at a low. Arthur Liman, a highly regarded legal counsel and Ross eminence grise, brought in another client of his, Herb Siegel, CEO of Chris Craft and an aspiring entertainment mogul, to play White Knight. Liman, Siegel, and Ross constructed a so-called Stock Exchange Plan in which WCI would receive a 42.5 percent interest in BHC, the Chris Craft television subsidiary (yeah, I know, you thought they made boats) in exchange for 19 percent of the voting stock of WCI. There were various ways to characterize this arrangement ranging from brilliant to a nefarious marriage of convenience. A disinterested third party, the Delaware Court, got involved in this semantic dispute, and it turned out the court was uninterested as well as disinterested. It said, in a manner of speaking, "Go away and leave us alone." Meanwhile, the Court did not force WCI and Chris Craft to unwind the transaction. With the exchange of shares now firmly in place, an acquisition of WCI by Murdoch became close to impossible. The circumstances also created a marriage of Ross and Siegel that was destined for predictable disaster, but this was one of those not infrequent any-port-in-a-storm corporate marriages. Despite these brilliant, or nefarious, machinations, Ross worried. (Steve was not given to needless worry, and often displayed his iron gut in business transactions. What I am saying is that if Steve was worried, and he was, there were good reasons.) Accordingly, despite the counsel of many advisors, Steve pushed for, and, under the "What-Steve-wants-Steve-gets doctrine," secured the approval of the WCI board to buy out Murdoch's WCI shares at a very sizable premium. Let's just say it was a lot more than you would have gotten if you had sold your WCI shares on the stock exchange the same day. Once again the world was left with a semantic puzzle: Was this greenmail or not? Greenmail is what I used to call "go-away money"—the kind I would try to get from my older teenage sister to leave her and her boyfriend alone, pretty much forever. Two years after the WCI buyback of its shares from Murdoch at a substantial premium, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 did its bit to make such go-away inducements, whatever you chose to call them, costly as well as unpopular. That was thirty years ago, and now HE'S BACK. Makes you wonder if there were some sort of expiration date on the original go-away agreement, and whether Warner, miscalculating Rupert's longevity, should have asked for a longer deal. Warren Christie is a former executive of Warner Communications and its successor, Time Warner.
Rupert Murdoch made offer to buy Time Warner by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine July 16, 2014, 8:15 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Twenty-First Century Fox, the media empire steered by Rupert Murdoch, has made a $80 billion takeover offer to acquire CNN and HBO parent Time Warner, a deal that was rebuffed by the takeover target. "21st Century Fox can confirm that we made a formal proposal to Time Warner last month to combine the two companies," said spokesman Nathaniel Brown in a prepared statement. "The Time Warner Board of Directors declined to pursue our proposal. We are not currently in any discussions with Time Warner." The cash-and-stock offer from 21st Century Fox was to acquire all outstanding Time Warner shares for a combination of 1.531 21st Century Fox Class A non-voting shares and $32.42 in cash per share. More: The Fortune interview: Rupert Murdoch The potential deal would merge two companies that have recently spun off their publishing assets to focus more on core television and film businesses. Twenty-First Century Fox FOXA spun off News Corp. NWSA , the owner of The Wall Street Journal and other print properties, roughly a year ago, while Time Warner recently unloaded Time Inc. TIME , which owns People, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune and other magazine properties. Time Warner, meanwhile, later Wednesday morning confirmed it had rejected the 21st Century Fox proposal, saying there was "significant risk and uncertainty" to 21st Century Fox's ability to govern and manage the combined company. "There are considerable strategic, operational, and regulatory risks to executing a combination with Twenty-First Century Fox," the company said in a statement. Earlier this month, Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes told Variety he didn't know anything about reports that 21st Century Fox and potentially Google GOOG were eying a takeover of the media conglomerate. At stake, if a takeover of Time Warner TWX were to occur, would be control of a media empire with a market capitalization of more than $63 billion. Time Warner's current assets all focus on TV and film content. They are Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, HBO and Warner Bros. Twenty-First Century Fox, meanwhile, controls the namesake film studio, as well as Fox News, Fox Business and Fox Sports. Murdoch is a well known media mogul who also has established a track record of getting his way when it comes to acquiring prized media assets. For example, his $5 billion offer to buy Dow Jones & Co. in 2007 was a surprise bid for one of the nation's last family-controlled newspaper companies. Though the Bancroft family, which owned a controlling stake in the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, put up a small fight, the family eventually agreed to a slightly larger takeover. Those print assets are now controlled by News Corp. One notable takeover target slipped through Murdoch's fingers, however. In 2011, News Corp. in its old form dropped a plan to take full ownership of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. That bid was sidelined as the company fended bad press in the United Kingdom due to a phone hacking scandal at a UK newspaper that has since been closed. The New York Times, which cited people briefed on the matter for its report, said Fox indicated it would sell CNN to appease regulators — as Fox News and CNN directly compete. That could potentially lead to a bidding war for the well-known news channel. Media stocks rose Wednesday on news of the rebuffed Time Warner offer.
Deciphering the madness of the Murdoch method by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine February 29, 2012, 7:46 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons James and Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch's decision to demote his own son is a perfect example of why he's endlessly interesting. Sometimes he makes business decisions purely with his head, canny and shrewd, occasionally ruthless. That's what he did this time. But sometimes he makes giant decisions with his heart, appearing misguided or just nuts; for example, he runs the New York Post and the Times of London at deep losses that will apparently continue forever, and he just doesn't care. Overall, the Murdoch method has worked well for him. For investors in his News Corp. NWS , it has not worked nearly as well as it should have. Recent events show the problem clearly. Amazingly, amid the U.K. phone hacking scandal that led to James Murdoch's downfall — a mushrooming story that a member of Parliament yesterday called "the single largest corporate corruption case in this country for more than 250 years" — the Murdoch method is still working, at least for him. James was, among other things, chief of News International, the News Corp. division that owns the company's British newspapers. When the phone hacking scandal erupted at one of them, the News of the World, Rupert made one of his famously tough-minded decisions, abruptly closing the 168-year-old paper. News Corp.'s value dropped by billions of dollars as investors feared more revelations would follow. They have followed. An inquiry still underway yields worse disclosures every day. Witnesses have reported that phone hacking was conducted at "industrial scale," that News International employees bribed the police so widely that Scotland Yard became in effect "a subsidiary of News International," that employees destroyed evidence massively, and that all of this was approved at "the highest levels." The highest levels would seem to include James Murdoch. As this mess gets bigger and uglier, Rupert concluded that James had to go. He's out as News International's boss and will work in New York City on the international TV business and other vaguely defined tasks. Here's the surprise: The stock isn't going down anymore. As the scandal gets worse, the stock rises higher. It fell to $14 last summer; it was over $20 when James got the shove. Investors figure this historic scandal won't hurt profits much; it won't make people stop watching The Simpsons or refuse to go see the next Avatar. (more…)
Should News Corp. fear bribery charges in the U.S.? by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine July 22, 2011, 5:49 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons With the U.S. Justice Department, SEC, and FBI having acknowledged that they are all making preliminary inquiries into the News Corp.'s phone-hacking and police-bribery scandal, and with the company having retained one of America's leading experts on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, many are wondering how much Rupert Murdoch's company has to fear from that law's provisions. (News Corp. has hired FCPA expert Mark Mendelsohn of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, as well as famed criminal defense attorney Brendan Sullivan of Williams & Connolly to represent it in the inquires. In addition, News Corp's independent directors have hired former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, both of Debevoise & Plimpton, to assist them in their investigation.) On Tuesday, two former Justice Department attorneys argued in the Wall Street Journal that applying the FCPA "to news-gathering raises very significant First Amendment concerns for all U.S. media." The FCPA was really intended "to clean up government contracting," they contend, which is not implicated at all in the current scandals. The payments that News of the World and, perhaps, other papers are suspected of having made to London police officials are thought to have been made to obtain story leads, and not to obtain government contracts from the police or other English governmental bodies, they argue. Though the authors, David Rivkin and Lee Casey, are very well-credentialed, their arguments are undercut in the eyes of some by the fact that they are noted political conservatives, that they were political appointees during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, and that their commentary was appearing in a News Corp. NWS publication. Fortune contacted Dan Newcomb, who founded the anti-corruption practice at Shearman & Sterling, and Daniel Slifkin, a securities litigation partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, to obtain a second- and third-opinion on the applicability of the FCPA to the conduct that is now under scrutiny. Is the FCPA targeted only at government contracting, and therefore inapplicable to alleged payments to police for leaking information? The law has two main parts. With respect to one part—the anti-corruption provisions—there is real ambiguity about whether the law applies and, if it does, whether it was intended to, according to the experts we contacted. The other part of the law, on the other hand—which requires keeping accurate books and records—seems likely to encompass the conduct being alleged. The anti-corruption provisions forbid an American corporation from making payments to a foreign official in order to help the company "in obtaining or retaining business for or with . . . any person." "The point is," Newcomb says, "that the statute is not a general foreign bribery statute," but is aimed, rather, at the problem of "American companies buying business overseas." Certainly, the classic FCPA bribery prosecution does involve a payment to a government official so that a company can land a business contract of some kind. "So I have to question whether obtaining newspaper information and stuff to publish is for that purpose." Slifkin, on the other hand, thinks bribing a police officer for leads or leaks "would probably be covered" even by this prong of the FCPA. While he does agree that most FCPA prosecutions involve "bribing the government to get business from the government," he thinks the purpose that would have motivated the tabloids' conduct here—to get scoops in order to sell more newspapers—still satisfies the literal requirements of the this section of the law. What about the other part of the FCPA—the provisions requiring accurate books and record-keeping? Here there appears to be no easy out for News Corp. if its employees are, in fact, found to have been bribing police officers, according to both Newcomb and Slifkin. Whether the bribes had a "business purpose" is irrelevant to a charge brought under the books and records provisions, they say, which contain no such limiting language. Newcomb adds that there is precedent for prosecutors aggressively using the books-and-records provisions of the FCPA when it would have been difficult or impossible for them to prosecute a bribe under the law's anti-corruption provisions. The books-and-records section was aimed at forbidding "slush funds," Newcomb says, because, "bribes are usually paid with cash siphoned off the books illegally." Under this section of the law, if it turns out that payments were in fact made to the police, the company would have a problem unless its books and records described those payments as "bribes for Scotland Yard" or something else "about that explicit." Furthermore, these provisions require not just keeping accurate books and records but also instituting "proper internal controls" to ensure accurate record keeping, Cravath's Slifkin notes. If there were widespread paying of bribes to police officers, this provision might also have been violated. Suppose it were eventually shown that some News tabloid had paid officers of Scotland Yard, say, $100,000 a year in bribes. Would that be enough to implicate the FCPA, or would that be considered small potatoes? "That's plenty," says Newcomb, who notes that he's seen FCPA prosecutions for a bribe as small as $400. The statute applies to payments of "anything of value." Slifkin agrees. "In some countries, it doesn't take a lot" to bribe a foreign official, he says, and those are the "same places where most of this stuff goes on." As a matter of prosecutorial discretion, do you really think U.S. prosecutors would pursue a FCPA prosecution against News Corp.? Newscomb doubts it. "Unless we find domestic violations," he says—for instance, that News Corp. reporters bribed New York City police officers to provide information about 9/11 victims—Newcomb thinks U.S. prosecutors will leave these matters to the British authorities. While there will be some "thumping around" by U.S. authorities, he predicts—in order to placate U.S. politicians—"as long as the British don't fall down" in their own inquiries, "I'm not sure what the U.S. adds to the process—to prosecute conduct that occurred in England." In fact, one of the factors that would make a FCPA prosecution in this situation so unusual, Slifkin notes, is that the FCPA "tends to be used in less developed countries that don't have rigorous antibribery statutes" of their own. "What you don't often see is the FCPA being used for conduct in countries like the U.K., where the world doesn't work this way and it's obviously illegal to bribe police officers. So there may be a little bit of getting in on the act."
News America's tense trouble by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine July 20, 2011, 9:41 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Add another headache to News Corp.'s unending list of woes: A lawsuit against a former employee could hinge on a simple bit of wording. By Betsy Feldman, contributor FORTUNE — Bill Clinton once said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." For News America Marketing, the $1.2 billion newspaper-insert subsidiary of News Corp., it may also depend on the tense of a word. In 2007, News Corp. NWSA sued Robert Emmel — an employee alleging anticompetitive behavior who sent documents to Senate investigators the day before signing a nondisclosure agreement — for breaching the agreement. Although his information appeared in three different lawsuits against News America alleging unfair practices — all of which were settled, for a total of $654.5 million — Emmel lost his own case in 2009. On June 8 an appellate court reversed the decision, ruling that because the agreement was written in the future tense, it didn't retroactively apply to past deeds. The lesson, says Mark Nagle, partner at Troutman Sanders, is that language does matter. On the same day, News Corp.'s EVP and general counsel, Lawrence Jacobs, resigned unexpectedly. Published reports linked his resignation to the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World that continues to engulf Rupert Murdoch's media empire. But the Emmel decision may have been the last straw. News Corp. wouldn't comment.
The trembling at News Corp has only begun by Paul Hodgson @FortuneMagazine July 19, 2011, 2:26 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Some people aren't at all surprised by the unending scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. They are the investors, insurers, lawyers, and others who had read the "Governance Analysis" report on the company from The Corporate Library, a research firm. The firm grades companies' governance from A to F, and for the past six years News Corp. has received an F — "only because there is no lower grade," says Nell Minow, who co-founded The Corporate Library in 1999 on the premise that governance "can be rated like bonds, from triple-A to junk." News Corp.'s overall risk, says the prophetic report: "very high." Risk of class-action securities litigation: "very high." Scandal-related lawsuits are already piling up. For those who think corporate governance is the concern of prissy do-gooders who don't understand real-world business, News Corp. NWS is the latest example that the truth is just the opposite: Governance is the foundation of real-world business. If it isn't solid, trouble is inevitable. For News Corp., it's the reason the trouble is far from over. See also: News Corp.: Murdoch still in charge News Corp.'s variety of lousy governance is simple — one man exerts control wildly out of proportion to his stake in the business. As at many companies with bad governance, the mechanism is dual-class stock. News Corp.'s class A shares account for about 70% of the company's market cap (recently $41 billion total) but have no voting power. Only class B shares, which account for the other 30% of the market cap, get to vote, and Rupert Murdoch has almost 40% of the class B shares. Economically he owns just 12% of the company, but he wields total control because he can elect all the directors. While the other class B shareholders (about 1,300 of them) could in theory gang up on him and vote against his wishes, in practice that doesn't happen. It's especially unlikely since long-time Murdoch supporter Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia owns 7% of the class B shares. Ultimate responsibility for protecting News Corp.'s 48,000 total shareholders thus rests with a board comprising three directors named Murdoch (Rupert plus sons James and Lachlan; daughter Elisabeth is scheduled to join next year), four additional News Corp. employees (COO Chase Carey, CFO David DeVoe, executive VP Joel Klein, and senior adviser Arthur Siskind), two former News Corp. employees, and seven other directors, including a 31-year-old opera singer, Natalie Bancroft, from the family that owned Dow Jones, which News Corp. bought in 2007. News Corp. says her "youth" and "female perspective" bring value to the board. Under such guardianship, it's unsurprising the stock has disappointed investors; it has underperformed the S&P 500 over the past five and 10 years. This board meets the independence requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Nasdaq, where the stock trades, but if it doesn't seem very independent to you, that's understandable. In any case, it doesn't matter. While legally the board can fire Rupert Murdoch, practically he can fire the board, and the board knows it. Truly the company has earned its F in governance. The effects are insidious and more far reaching than you might imagine. "It creates a culture with no accountability," says Charles Elson, director of the University of Delaware's John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. In companies where directors are genuinely subject to the shareholders' will, CEOs get fired; BP's bp board fired Tony Hayward last year, for example, and Hewlett-Packard's hpq board fired Mark Hurd. The message cascades down through the organization: Bad behavior gets you fired here. But at companies where the CEO can fire the board, a different message cascades down: We don't answer to the shareholders, we answer to just one person. It's the rule of man, not the rule of law. (more…)


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Steve Rubel reported seeing an excess of what he calls "Blog Thumbnails" in the Google search results. In short, when you do certain searches, Google may show little thumbnail alongside the first set of results. For Steve, this has been happening for "blogger's name and some other related keywords." Personally, I have been seeing these types of thumbnails for a while, but they only have come up for me for very specific searches, so I assumed it was a smaller bug then it really was.
Google's Matt Cutts has commented claiming this is some sort of bug and he has reported it to the right people. Matt said he hopes to "get it straightened out in short order."
You can currently see the thumbnails for searches for Gigaom papers and Luis Suarez and many others. The ones I have been seeing are related to very specific site command searches for flavors of site:seroundtable.com buzz, which returns this icon:
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For the location in Mombasa, this was a fairly ok property. No frill here at all, basic room with no amenities.
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Nice location on the beach. Nice pool. Friendly staff. Pretty good food.
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The staff was very helpful
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1. Staff was not concervative - considering we were not a couple that is typical in Kenya (two awesome human beings) 2. The beach is just out there 3. Taxi service - they even waited for us till morning 4. Nice breakfast
For the location in Mombasa, this was a fairly ok property. No frill here at all, basic room with no amenities.
Very basic property. Food was good though in the buffet.
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My table was switched. ...I even came in one morning and we had no table...but the supervisor apologised.... The dinner too was very African. ..
I did not get full information of what am entitled to on the first day
The room is spacious and well arranged.
Unprofessional-ism of the management staff. You show total disrespect for your clients when you do ongoing works without prior notice all day long ( drilling machine to be more specific).
The resort was in a great location right on the beach! We had a great view of the ocean from our room. The hotel was clean and the staff was friendly and courteous. The breakfast buffet was probably the highlight of our stay besides the view! Every morning we enjoyed the selection with an omelette station and pancake/waffle station. Fresh juice and the coffee was to die for! There were several options for drinking and eating on the premises. We took advantage of the laundry services before we left. The front desk was always available for any questions. Overall we enjoyed our stay immensely and can't wait to go back!
When we booked the hotel we didn't select the option that included lunch and dinner. The first night we were there we went to the restaurant in the hotel for a buffet dinner. The buffet was not very good and it ended up costing us over $50(US). We decided from that point on that we would eat in the city or at the nearby mall. Perhaps if you select that option it'll be worth it to you but we didn't eat at the hotel for lunch or dinner for the rest of our stay.
everything except payment facilities
Having to pay thrice. on chaeck in. for the dinner. for the taxi.
The room is comfortable and cleaned well.
The wifi connection is poor in the room. There are limited TV channels in the room.
The beach bar and breakfast...
Not swimming at night in the pool.
Location, pool, fantastic room with balcony, furniture, fast & strong wifi, sumptuous breakfast, superb Indian restaurant, gym & spa
Nothing, on this trip. Absolutely recommended.
Almost everything
Nothing reasonable and that is my fair opinion
Friendly staff Great location Good food Security personnel very apparent, felt safe Massages were excellent
WiFi was spotty Beach sellers were a bit of an annoyance
We particularly loved the ocean view front room in our week long stay. The resort staff and service level was fantastic. There are no worries with security as a good level of presence is reassuring to any guest. The breakfasts were great and the cocktails at the Hotel side beach bar are a must find. We also used the gym and beauty salon, again the services and staff were great. We would recommend the Travellers Rest Mombasa to any traveller for a wonderful beach side break or holiday. We would do it again!
The only problem we had was a small discrepancy with our account upon checking out which was not so much a monetary concern but the slowness in getting the matter resolved. I guess we should have been on Africa time. The small problem did not change or deter from our great time there and we would do it again. It was great!
no slippers in the rooms Could not view the ocean from my room as stated prior to booking
Food was good especially breakfast. There was quiet a variety. The room was clean
Staff were ok though I feel they could have done more to make us feel welcome. no one enquired about our stay, if we are ok etc.
1. The beach Breeze 2. The fresh Juices 3. The swimming pool 4. The transport services (TAXI) Specifically Joel
1. The timings for breakfast is too short compared to value of the hotel 2. Poor reception at the front office, we waited for more than 20 minutes to be attended to and yet were tired 3.No orientation to the hotel facilities and yet we stayed there for five days, even after inquiring. 4. During my five days stay at the hotel - the breakfast menu was the same.
my original booking was for 6 nights and 5 days / unfortunately i was forced to checkout 0n 2nd April . i have paid them in cash when i checked in i have requested them at least give some refund .. but they said since it is thru booking .com you have get refund from you.... cheaters. the hotel is not worth a stay as the AC and other facilities are up to the mark
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- atmosphere of prison - food - breakfast - room very poor
Nice location on the beach. Nice pool. Friendly staff. Pretty good food.
Hot water went out the first morning. I complained and it was "duly noted" but never fixed even after complaining again. So two and one-half days with no hot water, no explanation no nothing. The second day the AC failed, again, nothing was done. I talked with the manager upon checking out and all I got was "sorry". They are obviously cutting corners on maintenance, so Four Star Price, Two Star Experience. I won't go back.
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Bristol Rovers goalkeeper Mike Green is expecting a return to the substitutes bench for Saturday's game with Brentford.
The 21-year-old impressed in his Football League debut at Oldham last weekend, where Rovers emerged with a creditable 1-1 draw and he earned plaudits from manager Paul Trollope.
But Green was also between the posts for Tuesday's reserve friendly with Wycombe and he expects Denmark's Mikkel Andersen to resume the number one role upon his return from international duty.
"With me playing for the reserves, I'm sure Mikkel is going to be back on Saturday," Green told the Evening Post.
"I'm the number two, so it's only to be expected now he is back from international duty.
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You may 'ink' twice about getting a tattoo after watching this.
You may 'ink' twice about getting a tattoo after watching this.
Tattoos have become more and more accepted in many different genres of music. It's not just rockers that have tattoos. Many country artists have tattoos these days.
If you've never seen 'Despicable Me', take it from us-- you need to, if only to fall in love with the adorableness that are the minions.
With July 4th coming up, a lot of us are getting in the patriotic spirit with firework GIFs and festive food. But you know what? Celebrating 'merica doesn't only have to happen once every July. These people are showing off their patriotism year round!
A New York real estate company wants employees to take up some real estate on their bodies in order to take up more real estate in their bank accounts.
Ernesto Rodriguez is in the doghouse in many people's eyes.
Since tattoos are permanent and all, it's pretty important to choose a design you'll want to have for the rest of your life. The thing is, sometimes people don't exactly think about the whole 'forever' part of inking, and that's where hilarity comes prancing in.
Since the beginning of time, there have been those people who take things to the extreme. It is even more true now that we have bands and singers touring the world. Casey James recently got a taste of having an extreme fan.
Tattoo aficionados know they should only frequent parlors where things are clean and the artist uses sterile tools. But dangers may lurk elsewhere — new studies show the ink itself could be contaminated.
Sometimes in this life, we are branded by our own indiscretions, which often serve as a cautionary tale for those members of civil society that have not yet crossed over into the wicked world of retail sex, drugs and bad tattoos.
Kristen Bell has some fun with her clean cut image in a 'Funny or Die' clip in which she reveals that she actually has 223 tattoos, and because of this she requires about fourteen hours in make-up before performing her duties as a seemingly ink-less actress. Who knew Veronica Mars was such a wild girl?


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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are officially introducing Sparrow! Nicole and Joel's six-week-old son, who looks so much like his big sister did on her first cover, is front and center in mom's arms for his first magazine shoot. The family of four posed for People's newest cover and inside the magazine gushed about their life as a family of four.
Nicole said: "I couldn't be happier. The only thing you want is for your kids to be healthy and happy, and they are. I'm right where I belong. I'm glad I had a girl before I had a boy. She just loves him so much."
From Joel: "She's very gentle with him."
Congrats to the adorable family! Check out all the photos and full interview when the magazine hits newsstands on Friday.
5 years
Ugly baby. Both of them (no surprise considering the parents)! I'm just telling it like it is.
5 years
nic & joel make a great couple and with harlow & sparrow added, they make an even better family!!!
sooo cute!
5 years
I agree with comment #2. Among her are a bunch of talentless people who get famous and rich for nothing. But Nicole is the only one that I can feel ez on because at least her adopted dad (Mr. Richie) is an all-time famous star. Besides her, I don't think any others like Paris, Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad, ect...deserve their fame and wealth...
BTW, I cannot wait for the new People issue to come out. I guess it will arrive my mailbox 2morrow or maybe Friday. I just cannot wait. :)
I don't know how Harlow looked at Sparrow's age but right now, Sparrow just doesn't look that cute. I hope he will look better later because both his parents and sister are good looking people. Harlow is too cute and is just the cutest one in Hollywood right now. Look at her smiling face on the cover already puts a smile on my face as well. I loove her soo much!
5 years
Wow you guys are pathetic. Making fun of a baby? I'm sure you all are just sooooooooooo gorgeous right? Its a BABY
5 years
Lol Harlow cracks me up! She has the craziest face. I love the expressions she makes. Too cute. Like Zahara Pitt, so funny.
Sparow is cute. He looks like a miz of his parents, like Harlow
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He doesn't look that much like Harlow, I actually think that Harlow looks more like Joel and Sparrow looks like Nicole. He will probably get cuter as he gets older. Harlow wasn't the cutest baby and now she's friggin adorable!
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He doesn't look like Harlow. I never thought she was cute either. Well, "cute", I guess. That's all. And "uglier than a mud fence"?? Wtf is that? lol!!!
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Too bad the kid looks like Joel, whose uglier than a mud fence. Let's hope the baby grows out of it, otherwise he'll be teased mercilessly.
5 years
Hor friggin adorable! he looks JUST like Joel :) It is amazing how much Nicole has changed, and it has definately paid off! what a gorgeous and happy family!
5 years
Okay, he's not that cute...His sister turned out very pretty, though. So there's hope. There's nothing wrong with admitting a baby's not that pretty (except to the mother, that is). I was ugly as a baby and thing I look vry decent now!
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Wow!! beautiful family. I love them. Harlowe is turning out to have the cutest personality. I wish them the best with their growing family.
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I do not think he looks like Harlows baby picture at all.
I dunno WHO he looks like. Guess we will find out in a couple of years.
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#2. Looks absolutely awsum. :3
The first one and the second one caught my eye.
Howerver, I'll vote the second one because of the hawt splashes <3 |
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I agree with everyone else.
#2 takes the cake. I don't mean to be harsh, especially since the creator of #1 may see this, but they look like regular anime characters, which has nothing to do with MMOs. #3 is the same, it screams ANIME, not MMO. :x Edit: Still, congratulations for making it this far to each of the three artists. |
I really like #2. Blue is my fave color :D And it goes with the new blue layout.
Number 2) Because it looks awesome and it's more "open". Doesn't look like it will be only focusing on a specific game.
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I love the second one. ;o It is so pretty.
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I really like #3.. D8? its not gonna win, ha well they all looked good eh?
2 i guess since it doesnt show 1 specific mmo...
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#2 is sexy for the new layout.
i liked #1, but 2 does match the site's theme more. oh well, i'll vote for 1 based on personal preference.
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The Boston Celtics are absent from the postseason for a fifth consecutive year, but the best parts of their old hardcourt -- the parquet that ranks with the yellow brick road in the annals of fabled flooring -- are preparing for a final game.
In Boston, parquet equals history. Maybe even art. So the floor on which Larry Bird's sneakers squeaked and Red Auerbach's cigar ashes fell will receive its last hurrah at an on-line auction starting Monday on sothebys.amazon.com.
''There aren't many opportunities like this,'' said Leila Dunbar, a senior vice president and director of collectibles at Sotheby's, the auction house. ''What other floor in basketball has this kind of history?''
The auction was timed to coincide with the National Basketball Association playoffs and will end June 15.
From 1946 to 1999, the Celtics played on no home floor but the parquet -- crafted out of scraps of northern Tennessee red oak for $11,000 -- at the Boston Arena, the Boston Garden and the FleetCenter. The finale for the geriatric floor came on Dec. 22, when the Celtics lost to Atlanta, 98-81.
Now, 40 of the 264 panels that comprised the floor are for sale.
Twenty of the 2-foot-by-2-foot panels are laid out together at a 10th floor gallery at Sotheby's East Side building to recreate center court -- leprechaun logo included. Another 20 autographed and framed panels are to be displayed on walls where Impressionist paintings hung two weeks ago.
''It was unique because it looked like no other floor,'' said Bill Russell, the center of the Celtic dynasty from 1956 to 1969. ''But what was most significant about the floor was that teams found it distracting. And that was all right.''
Teams searched for reasons for losing to Boston, like the Boston Garden's dark and cold locker rooms or the floor's dribble-killing dead spots. ''It was part of our legend for kicking everybody's butts,'' Russell said.
The auctioneers are not identifying or charging more for the dead spots. But they have priced the floor panels in order of their significance, with most of the proceeds going to charity;
*The minimum acceptable bid for center court is $75,000.
*The spot where John Havlicek stole the ball in Game 7 of the 1965 Eastern Conference finals: $15,000.
*The panel where Russell made a spectacular block in the 1957 finals against St. Louis: $10,000.
*The spot from which Phoenix's Garfield Heard launched his amazing shot in the second overtime of Game 5 of the 1976 finals: $5,000.
Jeff Mann, sales director of Boston Parquet at the FleetCenter, examined old video to identify the panels of Celtic lore: Bird's theft of Isiah Thomas's inbounds pass during the 1987 Eastern Conference finals; Kevin McHale's favored low-post area; and where Bob Cousy cried when he bid farewell in 1963.
The 53-year-life of the Celtics' floor is an anomaly, like a 25-year-old cat. Most N.B.A. floors endure for 7 to 10 years.
Last July, the Utah Jazz's Delta Center floor was removed and auctioned off by Collectors Universe One-of-a-Kind. Some of the panels were acquired by Upper Deck, of Carlsbad, Calif., which used them to produce a limited edition of collectibles to commemorate the last shot of Michael Jordan's career in the 1998 finals, which gave the Chicago Bulls their eighth N.B.A. championship. Yesterday, on eBay, the bid for one of the items was $5,500.
Upper Deck recently bought a home jersey worn by Joe DiMaggio in 1951, his final season, which failed to sell in April for the minimum price set by the auction house Christie's. The pinstriped top will be sliced into swatches and inserted as surprises in 2000 Upper Deck baseball card packs next month.
Upper Deck has similarly diced a Jordan jersey and a Babe Ruth bat.
The Celtics' floor seems destined for a better, more intact fate, especially for someone who can put center court in his or her rec room. The 200-plus panels not consigned to sothebys.amazon.com for the auction will be sold at retail at more modest prices, Mann said.
Russell, never one to linger over nostalgia, has a few framed panels hanging on a wall at his Washington State home. ''Sometimes I just look at them and laugh,'' he said.


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Sensors 2012, 12(8), 10148-10162; doi:10.3390/s120810148
On-Line Estimation of Laser-Drilled Hole Depth Using a Machine Vision Method
Received: 7 June 2012 / Revised: 23 July 2012 / Accepted: 23 July 2012 / Published: 27 July 2012
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Abstract: The paper presents a novel method for monitoring and estimating the depth of a laser-drilled hole using machine vision. Through on-line image acquisition and analysis in laser machining processes, we could simultaneously obtain correlations between the machining processes and analyzed images. Based on the machine vision method, the depths of laser-machined holes could be estimated in real time. Therefore, a low cost on-line inspection system is developed to increase productivity. All of the processing work was performed in air under standard atmospheric conditions and gas assist was used. A correlation between the cumulative size of the laser-induced plasma region and the depth of the hole is presented. The result indicates that the estimated depths of the laser-drilled holes were a linear function of the cumulative plasma size, with a high degree of confidence. This research provides a novel machine vision-based method for estimating the depths of laser-drilled holes in real time.
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Giants' Pierre-Paul has back surgery
New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul had successful surgery to repair a herniated disc in his lower back, the team has announced.
The operation took place Tuesday at a hospital in Marina Del Rey, Calif. The two-time Pro Bowl selection is expected to require up to 12 weeks of recovery time.
That means Pierre-Paul will miss all of training camp and most of the preseason, but should be ready for the Giants' regular-season opener against Dallas on Sept. 8.
Pierre-Paul had been bothered by the nagging back problem last season. The decision to have surgery was made over the past week, after the player was examined by several doctors.
The Giants' 2010 first-round draft pick has 27 1/2 sacks in 48 games.
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Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month
Pros:I'm using this battery in my alarmclock for when the power should go down, so I won't miss work. The battery is inside allready for a long time in the meanwhile, and still giving the power when needed. This is not some cheap battery that drains out very soon, but one you can rely on.
Cons:I can't think about any cons at the moment.
Bottomline:Reliable battery, and I'm happy I've bought this one, cause in shops around here, the price is way more, and it seems the quality is just the same.
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