A powerful American Senator wants to investigate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to determine if the phone-hacking scandal has stretched across the water from Britain to the U.S.
News Corp has withdrawn its $12 billion bid to buy out the 61 percent of broadcaster BSkyB it does not already own after the government turned on Rupert Murdoch over a phone hacking scandal.
News Corp withdrew its $12 billion bid to buy out the 61 percent of broadcaster BSkyB it does not already own on Wednesday after the government turned on Rupert Murdoch following a phone hacking scandal.
The phone hacking controversy embroiling Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. led the media titan to scuttle the highly profitable News of the World, but when it comes to raking in profits Murdoch's media empire can still count on one benefactor: the U.S. government.
The beleaguered News Corp., burdened by an ever-worsening scandal regarding illegal phone-hacking, may be forced to unload its remaining newspapers in Great Britain, according to Rupert Murdoch’s biographer.
Rebekah Brooks has few friends left among the staff at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.
Three of the most high-profile executives embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal in Britain will soon be answering questions from British politicians about alleged bribes paid to police officers for information used in newspaper articles.
News Corp. and its leader Rupert Murdoch are embroiled in a far-reaching scandal. Murdoch's style may have finally caught up with him.
Will Rupert Murdoch be able to save his Media Conglomerate from the gathering storm of corruption, hacking and political shenanigan charges
Journalists from across Rupert Murdoch's stable of newspapers repeatedly tried to hack into the phone of Gordon Brown when he was British finance minister and prime minister, the Guardian and Independent newspapers reported on their websites on Monday.
The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the British media empire of Rupert Murdoch may become the biggest political imbroglio in the UK in many years … but it remains rather tame compared to the Profumo, affair which exploded in the country almost 50 years ago.
When David Beckham and Victoria Posh Spice Beckham gave birth to a girl and named her Harper Seven Beckham, we started thinking, what would other people in the news name their next child if they followed in Posh and Becks' footsteps? Here are a few guesses.
News Corp. shares are down 6.8 percent as of 2:05 p.m. (EDT) at $16.18 per share.
News Corporation shareholders sued the Rupert Murdoch-owned company Monday accusing the board of “failing to exercise proper oversight and take sufficient action since news of the hacking first surfaces at its subsidiary nearly six year ago.”
A core of large investors in BSkyB is planning to stick with it regardless of the outcome of a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to take it over -- now hanging in the balance -- and as others dumped the shares on Monday.
Britain asked on Monday for fresh regulatory advice over the bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to buy BSkyB, signaling it could be looking for a way out of approving the deal while a phone hacking scandal rages.
The British government has asked the media regulator to consider whether undertakings provided by News Corp to secure a buy out of BSkyB are still credible in light of a phone hacking scandal.
British government lawyers are drawing up a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper reported on Monday.
BSkyB shares will be under pressure again in the coming week after a weekend in which politicians ramped up their rhetoric to derail a proposed $14 billion takeover by U.S. media conglomerate News Corp .
With a headline 'Thank You and Goodbye', Britain's best-selling newspaper News of the World ended its 168-year-old history when it hit the newsstands for the last time on Saturday.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch arrived in London Sunday to tackle a crisis that has spiraled beyond a phone-hacking scandal at one of his papers and threatened to scupper a multi-billion-dollar deal.
Prime Minister David Cameron came under growing pressure on Sunday to halt Rupert Murdoch's bid for pay-TV operator BSkyB, at least until an investigation into phone-hacking at the media magnate's newspapers has been completed.
