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Chief executive says company aims to 'own the second screen' through deals such as Sun's Premier League highlights service
News Corporation, the newly devolved publishing division in Rupert Murdoch's global empire starts, launches on the New York and Sydney stock exchanges on Monday with the aim of dominating the smartphone market for news, entertainment and information.
Robert Thomson, the chief executive of new News Corp, told investors in Sydney the company would retain "Murdochian magic" and would have "a permanent startup sensibility" with globalisation and digitisation its biggest opportunities for growth.
"One of our foremost ambitions outside Australia is to own the second screen," he said in an investor roadshow whether this was "a football match or a British election".
He said the media sector was "still at the early stage of a second great migration, from print to web from web to mobile" and it was working on »
- Lisa O'Carroll
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