in 1993, delphi was sold to rupert murdoch's news corporation. news corporation recognized that there would be growth in consumer use of the internet and attempted to use delphi as its vehicle. it had 125,000 text-based customers in 1995 and had 150 employees. murdoch hired away ibm's director of high-performance computing and communications, alan baratz, in 1994 to run delphi. under baratz delphi acquired space in cross point an office complex in lowell, massachusetts constructed for wang laboratories and built a large state of the art server farm. bruns and general manager rusty williams stayed on. delphi peaked with 500,000 paid subscribers and about 600 employees.