Fool on the Street: News Corp. Still Doesn't Get It
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One of the largest media houses in the world is coming around to the new market realities -- ever so slowly.
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The Motley Fool - The invention of the American depositary receipt (ADR) was both a boon and a curse to U.S. investors. On the one hand, when foreign companies list their shares on U.S. exchanges, they make it a heck of a lot easier for the average investor to buy a piece of Nokia (NYSE: NOK - News), Cable &amp; Wireless (NYSE: CWP - News), or SAP AG (NYSE: S News) than it would have been if she had to figure out how to buy shares on the Helsinki, London, or Munich stock exchanges. But on the other hand, there are the -- to put it politely -- "inefficiencies" of buying ADRs.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In a move designed to fortify itself a potential hostile takeovers, News Corp. adopted a &quot;poison pill&quot; shareholder rights plan.
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In the Wall Street Journal deal, the question is when, not if, Murdoch would take control.
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Business & money: Forceful presentation fails to sway all investors while target says proposal is still 'dead in the water'
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(InfoWorld) - "I have sent my wife across there because she understands the language," The Financial Times reported News Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch saying. "There" is China, and he sent Wendi Deng "across" to try to avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared other Western Internet ventures, including News Corp.'s. I had to laugh when I read that, after I stopped shaking my head in disbelief. After knocking on China's door for years, Mr. Murdoch has clearly learned nothing. Sending a representative who carries no portfolio for the company except a wedding ring isn't going to impress anyone in China, regardless of where she was born or what language she speaks. That "send the Chinese guy" strategy worked so well for Yahoo Inc. they no longer own their China unit and their coffers are $1 billion lighter. The one- or two-day "parachute" approach so many CEOs use isn't any better. Fortune 500 CEOs pay lip service to their and their companies' commitment to China on a daily basis, and it's wearing thin, especially on the Chinese. "We're in it for the long-term," "we're here to stay," "China is such an important market for us" -- stop me when you've heard enough, because people here certainly have. If foreign companies are committed to the Chinese market, then it's time to demonstrate that in a meaningful way. The CEOs need to lead a China initiative the same way they would back restructuring, going green, or any other major corporate project. Today I issue the China CEO Challenge: as CEO of a non-Chinese company, show your commitment to the China market by moving here for a year. Establish your personal headquarters in a major Chinese city (Hong Kong doesn't count). Business travel is permitted, but for one year, your home and office are here. For extra credit, have your board meetings in China too. My guess is that if Eric Schmidt parked it in an office overlooking the Bund or the Forbidden City for a year, China's perspective of Google would change and vice-versa. He should spend some time trying to use his company's sites on a regular ADSL connection, and slamming his fist against the desk when some of them are blocked. When pictures of him sitting at the corner shop slurping down beef noodles start showing up in local newspapers, it'll win hearts and minds. I'd bet the first CEO to do this will be European. There was a rumor a couple of years ago that Volkswagen's CEO was going to spend half the year in China and half in Germany, but it never happened. The opportunity is still there. If the U.S. or European or your other home market is more important, that's fine. But then stop saying how committed you are to China because sitting in the same traffic, using the same Internet connections, and eating the same food is the real price of admission.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- When Marsh &amp; McLennan reports third-quarter results next week, few analysts will be looking at the numbers.
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News Corp. said Wednesday it may change its constitution to appease Australian investors still undecided about its proposed move to the United States.
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While The Wall Street Journal may eventually have new ownership, one Fool hopes a reduction in quality won't follow.
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Wall Street's right, but for the wrong reason.
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If all you care about is reported profit, you wouldn't want any part of owning the Wall Street Journal. The paper, for all its cachet and influence, is at best marginally profitable; the profits of its parent, Dow Jones, come primarily from electronic data distribution. But the Journal, financial...
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News Corp.'s latest catch is making its photo-sharing site even stickier.
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RUPERT Murdoch has to win four key votes to shift The News Corporation Ltd to New York and into the S&amp;P 500 share index. The votes of the Australian institutions - where the greatest opposition to the move resides - are critical in only one of the four.
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The faster corporate earnings grow, the better the stock market performs. That is a tenet of Wall Street, but like so much other conventional wisdom, it turns out to be false.
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The Motley Fool - Yesterday, I wrote about how everyone and their neighbor seems to gunning for a slice of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod and iTunes business. And while I still believe it's possible for News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News), and Sony (NYSE: SNE - News) to erode some of Apple's market share for downloadable music, I don't expect the company to passively stand by as revenues drop.
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Plus: Dow Jones' digital gamble. [News.com Extra]
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It's time to begin watching for Rupert Murdoch's stamp on The Wall Street Journal.