BizJournals Portfolio
Jan 31 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: Murdoch and China, more

-Did Rupert Murdoch undertake an unseemly kowtow to get News Corp. into China? A new book says "yup." [FT]

-Remember all those Viacom permalancers who were about to get the shaft? Now 1,000 of them are getting put on staff. [Gawker]

-Watch this pretty cool Pepsi Super Bowl ad geared to deaf consumers. [YouTube]

-New York Times Co. revenues were down 22 percent year-over-year in December. [NYT Co. website]

-Speaking of the Times, here's a profile of Scott Galloway, who's spearheading the effort by two hedge funds to pressure the paper to adopt a more forward-thinking strategy. [Portfolio.com]

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