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NewsCorp chairman Rupert Murdoch swears he’s not doing any deals at this year. Mr. Murdoch, who has been busy remaking his latest toy, the Wall Street Journal, told reporters, “Not today. Not this week,â€_ when they asked him about possible deals as he made his way into the annual Allen & Company media retreat in . Mr. Murdoch and his wife Wendy are just two of the media moguls to join the famed Allen &Co media retreat in that started Wednesday. Bill Gates of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Jerry Yang of much-battered Yahoo, the Google trinity of Sergey Brin, Larry Price and Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bewkes of Time-Warner are just a few of the big names expected at the closed-door event. The gathering is known as an incubator of big deals, including the Disney-ABC merger, but the credit crunch and economic uncertainty... [read full story]