In The Air: The betting in the City is News Corp’s efforts to buy BSkyB outright will succeed but will take nine to 12 months for regulators to clear the deal... more
News Corp's European chief James Murdoch claims Google has recognised it has not done enough to help web publishers protect their intellectual property... more
Media Analysis: Rupert Murdoch's biographer, Michael Wolff, has a reputation for being well-informed and mischievous. He certainly caused a stir by claiming News Corp was ready to sell The Times and Sunday Times... more
Rebekah Wade loves newspapers. So at a time when they face unprecedented economic problems, her promotion has not gone down badly at News International... more
Media analysis: For those who have followed the twists and turns of Rupert Murdoch’s remarkable career over the last 40 years the departure of another right-hand man comes as no surprise... more
Media: Rupert Murdoch's vast News Corp media empire was thrown into turmoil as the man seen as his immediate next in line quit, leaving a massive question mark over the 77-year-old mogul's succession plans... more
Filings by News Corp in the US contain the information that, should anyone other than Rupert Murdoch take charge of the company, chief operating officer Peter Chernin is to receive $40 million... more
One rule for banks — another for everybody else. In the US, the Federal Reserve phoned Credit Suisse to see if it had pulled a line of credit from Lehman Brothers... more
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch’s salary, bonus and stock compensation has risen by about 9% in the past year to $27.1 million (£14.5 million)... more
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the mother of News Corp chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch, has won an appeal against the Australian Taxation Office, saving her millions of pounds in tax... more
Microsoft, whose bid for Yahoo was rebuffed, has reportedly approached social networking website Facebook as it tries to build a credible online strategy... more
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