jack shafer

Give Rupert Murdoch this much: His plan to stick it to Google while simultaneously increasing his newspapers' revenues is clever. Very clever, in fact. But that doesn't mean it's good. Murdoch is reportedly in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) about a pact whereby News Corp. (NWS) would de-index its...

Greetings, DailyFinance readers. I'm here at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., where I've spent the past two days taking in The Atlantic's First Draft of History conference: a medley of one-on-one interviews with politicians, business leaders (like this guy) and other newsmakers, conducted by the...

Power lists are, by their nature, kind of stupid. The idea that something as subjective as influence can be empirically measured and rank-ordered is inherently contentious: Lists are meant to provoke arguments, not agreement. But some power lists are stupider than others. And perhaps the...