News Corp. OKs poison pill, buyback before split
News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.
UK court jails 4 Lulzsec hackers for cyberattacks
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were ...
Ex-UK police officer jailed over leaks to tabloid
A former British police sergeant has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for trying to sell details about a celebrity couple's daughter and other ...
News Corp 3Q beats Street on pay TV, 'Pi'
News Corp. beat Wall Street's forecast for the January-March quarter, helped by growing revenue from pay TV networks including Fox News Channel and ...

Ferguson key in Man U's financial transformation
Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson. Apple and Steve Jobs. Will one of the world's most recognized soccer clubs face the same challenges the ...
Brooks's ex-bodyguard charged in UK hacking probe
A man who provided protection for the former chief executive of News International has been charged in relation to Britain's wide-ranging ...
News Corp. shareholders to vote on split June 11
News Corp. says June 11 will be the date of a special shareholders meeting to approve a plan to split into two companies. The split is expected to be ...

APNewsBreak: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo has book deal
Andrew Cuomo, the popular governor and a possible presidential contender in 2016, has a book deal. HarperCollins told The Associated Press on Monday ...
News Corp. split could boost Murdoch compensation
Rupert Murdoch's compensation package could rise by as much as 15 percent after his media empire splits into two separate companies.

3 under investigation over topless Kate photos
French prosecutors have placed the publisher and photographer of unauthorized topless snaps of Prince William's wife, Kate, under formal criminal ...
Reporter at Murdoch's The Sun charged over bribery
A senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper is being charged with conspiring to pay 23,000 pounds (roughly $35,000) in bribes in return ...
News Corp. insurers pay $139M in shareholder suit
News Corp. has reached a $139 million settlement in shareholder lawsuits over the British phone hacking scandal and the controversial purchase of an ...
Senior British journalist charged over bribes
The Sun newspaper's executive editor was charged Thursday with authorizing bribes to a government official, making him one of most senior journalists ...
LulzSec hacker pleads guilty to cyberattacks
A British computer hacker affiliated to the group Lulz Security pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberattacks on institutions including Sony, Britain's ...

Ebert showed willingness to adapt to new media
Roger Ebert started out as an old-school newspaper man, the kind that has all but vanished: a fierce competitor who spent the day trying to scoop the ...

New book shares insights from Steve Jobs' 1st boss
When Steve Jobs adopted "think different" as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart ...
Ex-policeman jailed for selling info to UK paper
A former police officer has been jailed in Britain for selling information to Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper. Alan Tierney, who formerly worked at ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...

Politicians strike deal over UK press regulation
British politicians struck a last-minute deal on press regulation Monday, unveiling new rules that aim to curb the worst abuses of the country's ...

Rowling to UK govt: Don't let down hacking victims
Celebrities including J.K. Rowling and Hugh Grant accused the British government on Sunday of letting down the victims of media intrusion and urged ...
Ex-tabloid editor quizzed in phone hacking probe
The former editor of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid was questioned on Friday by police investigating phone hacking, British media reported. The Press ...

Cameron confronts opposition over media regulation
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday he would champion self-regulation for Britain's scandal-tainted press, bucking a key recommendation ...
UK phone hacking arrests at new media: Mirror
British police made four arrests for suspected phone hacking Thursday, the first time that top editors and journalists at the Mirror group have been ...

UK ex-policeman, prison officer sold info to paper
A former police officer and a prison officer have admitted selling information to a British tabloid belonging to Rupert Murdoch, pleading guilty ...

Schools shift from textbooks to tablets
Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their ...