Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is facing a claim for exemplary damages after admitting hacking into the email of an anonymous police blogger to expose his identity, lawyer Mark Lewis told Reuters on Friday.
The Facebook-Instagram deal announced on Monday is just one in a long succession of ill-advised tech company acquisitions.
Rupert Murdoch on Thursday declared war against enemies who have accused his pay-TV operation of sabotaging its rivals, denouncing them as toffs and right wingers stuck in the last century.
News Corp's plan to start a national sports network will ultimately drive up television rights costs.
News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch vowed to hit back hard against what his company president called baseless allegations from the BBC that a subsidiary ran a secret unit to promote piracy against pay-TV rivals.
One of baseball's storied franchises went for a record-shattering price, clearing the way for an end to the drama surrounding current owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife.
An Australian newspaper accused News Corp of sabotaging the Pay- TV rivals by selling pirated smartcards, causing loss of millions of dollars to the rival channels.
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Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), the No. 1 provider of Internet gear, said it plans to acquire NDS of the UK in a move to bolster its growing presence in media communications.
Rebekah Brooks is at the center of a scandal that mixes low-brow mass circulation tabloid culture with the uppermost echelons of British politics and business circles.
James Murdoch has written to the influential UK parliamentary committee investigating a phone hacking scandal to apologize and restate his own innocence ahead of a potentially damaging report that could determine his future in Britain.
A former reporter on the News of the World newspaper, the defunct News Corp British paper at the heart of phone-hacking and corruption allegations, said he lost his job as crime correspondent because he refused to bribe police officers.
Shares of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) were near their record high after reports the No. 1 chipmaker is trying to create a virtual TV service for the consumer sector.
Rebekah Brooks, who formerly ran News Corp. unit News International, was arrested Tuesday for a second time in connection with alleged illegal interception of phone messages and a system of bribes to police officials.
Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported.
British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, part of Rupert Murdoch's UK media business, is facing an escalating investigation into whether it is a fit and proper owner of a broadcasting licence, Britain's telecoms regulator said on Thursday.
A senior member of the unit Rupert Murdoch created to clean up reporting practices at his British newspapers has consulted a private firm about improving the security system at his home, his spokesman said Wednesday night.
One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-plagued publishing empire.
Big payouts to victims of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World paper are set to drive up the damages awarded in privacy cases in Britain, according to a recent judgment and experts in media law.
A top British lawyer will visit the U.S. next month to explore the possibility of suing News Corp., the American arm of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, on behalf of three people who believe a Murdoch detective may have hacked their voice mail while they were in the United States, according to reports.
James Murdoch, the younger of 80-year-old media baron Rupert Murdoch's two sons, will relinquish his position as executive chairman of U.K.-based newspaper publisher News International, following a phone-hacking scandal that shut down the News of the World newspaper.
