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Technology Stocks : News Corp (NYSE:NWS) or Murdoch vs. Gates
NWS 29.92+0.4%Dec 30 3:59 PM EST
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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote ()10/17/1999 6:58:00 AM
From: Angelo Ferraro   of 67
 
an interesting and relevant news story when one considers the title of this subject ;)

dailynews.yahoo.com

Gates: Watch Murdoch's Influence

LONDON (AP) - Bill Gates thinks if anyone wants to take over the world, it's the man who accused him of wanting to - media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

In an interview with the BBC scheduled to air this weekend, the Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news). chairman says: ``He's hiding behind me. He's your man.'

Gates says running Microsoft is ``not like owning a newspaper,' referring to Murdoch's News Corp. empire, which includes newspapers in the United States, England and Australia, as well as the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox Television, the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and satellite TV networks on several continents.

``Someone who owns a newspaper can pick up the phone to the editor and say `run headlines I like,' Gates says. ``What we do is create tools like a word processor that lets people express their ideas and we're not at all involved in how they choose to use it.

``The thing we're involved with has democratized communications, and anyone can publish on the Internet. You don't have to own a TV channel or a newspaper.' 
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