Australia’s face-off with Facebook is of global import
In one clumsy strike, Facebook unified the entire Australian political spectrum, alienated its users and underlined just why tech giants require enforceable regulation.
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush wins defamation suit against News Corp. over alleged sex assault
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush won damages of at least 850,000 Australian dollars ($610,000) on Thursday after a court ruled that the Australian arm of News Corp. defamed him by saying he behaved inappropriately toward a co-star in a production of King Lear. The Federal Court, which ...
Comcast concedes to Disney in bidding war for Fox assets but still vies to buy chunk of Sky
Comcast Corp. dropped its $66 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.'s entertainment assets on Thursday but said it would still try to expand its international footprint by acquiring 61 percent of European broadcaster Sky PLC, the remainder of which is owned by Fox. Comcast's ...
Taking on Fox, Comcast formally notifies Brussels of intent to bid for Sky
U.S. cable operator Comcast has formally notified the European Commission of its intention to bid for Britain's pay-TV group Sky, starting the clock on a review, a regulatory source told Reuters on Monday. Comcast is racing to get ahead of Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox ...
Murdoch offers to sell Sky News to Disney to win pay-TV prize
Rupert Murdoch ratcheted up the pressure on Britain to approve his $15 billion-plus bid for pay-TV group Sky by offering to sell or legally separate Sky News, aiming to head off objections the deal could give him too much political influence. Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox ...
Disney buying Fox film and TV units for $52 billion in digital push amid Netflix and Amazon surge
Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. for $52.4 billion in stock, giving the world's largest entertainment company an arsenal of shows and movies to combat growing digital rivals Netflix ...
Rupert Murdoch twice discussed buying CNN with AT&T CEO, sources say
Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN, sources briefed on the matter said Friday. According to one of the sources, the 86-year-old executive chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. offered to ...
Murdoch pulls Fox News from Sky platform as U.K. mulls takeover deal, probe
Rupert Murdoch has pulled his Fox News channel from the Sky platform in Britain, where the government is assessing a bid by the media mogul to buy the broader Sky pay-TV company for $15 billion. In a statement, Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox said it had ...
SoftBank's Son cedes to Murdoch as top India home, property portals merge
Indian real estate websites PropTiger.com and Housing.com are merging to create the country's top portal for residential listings and property services, as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. boosts its investment in the growing sector while Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp. scales back. REA Group Ltd., an ...
Murdochs want Fox News chief Ailes to go but not until after GOP convention: report
Rupert Murdoch, executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox Inc, and his sons, James and Lachlan, agree that Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes should leave the company but they have not settled on the timing, New York magazine reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. Former ...
