Microsoft Builds Closer TV Ties With Murdoch

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Microsoft Corp., in a move signaling closer ties with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has signed a deal to build an upgraded version of its UltimateTV interactive-television technology with Mr. Murdoch’s international satellite-broadcasting network, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal reported.

The agreement, announced inside Microsoft this week in an e-mail message sent to employees, indicates that Microsoft (MSFT) hopes to expand aggressively UltimateTV to foreign markets in coming years, despite a rather lackluster response to the fledgling service so far in the U.S.



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