Hacking scandal sends News shares on $8.6 billion slide
News Corp's loss of $7b in market value over four trading days shows investor concerns that the phone hacking probe could have a broader impact on the company.
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Fear that the debt crisis in Europe is spreading has sent investors running for the exits, hammering both global equities and the euro.
Dodgers despair at paying price for owner's luxury life
Frank McCourt bought the LA team without spending any of his money and now the side are left in the lurch.
Australian newspapers threaten Cup boycott
Some of Australia's biggest newspapers and online news sites are threatening to boycott the Rugby World Cup.
News Corp avoids inquiry into buyout
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has offered to give guarantees on the editorial future of the Sky News channel in an effort to head off a Competition Commission inquiry.
Times says 105,000 behind news paywall
News Corporation has reported 105,000 online sales of The Times and The Sunday Times - the first official figures sincce putting its online news content behind a paywall.
<i>Fiji Times</i> gets new editor
In a move set to raise concerns about the newspaper's independence, Fiji Times publisher Dallas Swinstead said editor-in-chief Netani Rika had quit because of perceptions he was anti-government.
Tabloid latest to go behind paywall
From next month, web users will have to pay to read the News of the World tabloid online.
Jaron Lanier: Web 2.0 is utterly pathetic
He pioneered virtual reality and is a leading light in digital culture. So why does Jaron Lanier believe that the internet is killing creativity?
MySpace - how did it go so wrong?
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp spent US$580m on MySpace. Four years later he hired AOL's Jonathan Miller to rescue it. He fired founder Chris De Wolfe and hired Owen Van Natta from Facebook. Ten months later, he's out too.