The empire strikes back

10 Jan 2008 By Jeff Segal

News Corp. denied it has made a $4.8bn bid for the employment website. But it s not a bad idea. Online classified ad machines like Monster have gutted one of the newspaper industry s best business lines. Purchasing Monster might be a sweet form of revenge for the newspaper baron.

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