A lobbyist for by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation tells the Leveson Inquiry he did nothing “inappropriate” in contacting Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s former special adviser.
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BSkyB contact not ‘inappropriate’
The phone-hacking scandal in Britain is taking a toll on Rupert Murdoch’s broader holdings, prompting worry at News Corporation that years of business dealings could draw new attention.
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Hacking Scandal Starts to Hem In Rupert Murdoch’s Empire
The News Corporation chief testified at an inquiry on Wednesday as e-mails pointed to ties between a lobbyist for his company and the office of Britain’s Culture Minister.
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Rupert Murdoch Testifies at Leveson Inquiry in Britain
The Respect MP, George Galloway, has told the BBC that both Labour and the Conservatives have been “in bed with” the Murdochs. There have been calls for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign over suggestions he had acted as a “cheerleader” fo News Corporation’s bid to take full control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
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VIDEO: Galloway: Labour also implicated
BBC One Saturday night game show Total Wipeout will end after its next series, the corporation has confirmed.
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Total Wipeout is shelved by BBC
An Australian newspaper’s report that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had sabotaged competitors in the 1990s was dismissed by the company’s Australian media wing as “laughable.”
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Murdoch’s News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in Australia
A News Corporation company recruited a pay-TV “pirate” to post hacked details of a rival’s secret codes online, BBC Panorama finds.
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Pay-TV hacker breaks silence
Media giant News Corporation sees its net profits rise 65% in the three months to the end of December 2011 compared to 2010.
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News Corp profits swing to growth
While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.
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The Media Equation: Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch’s Mind
AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, said on Tuesday that it has filed for Chapter 11, in an effort to reduce labor costs and shed its heavy debt load.
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DealBook: American Airlines Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy
Do Americans use less health care when it costs more? That’s the question at the heart of debates over “skin in the game:” the idea that cost-sharing for medical services reduces utilization. A landmark study by the Rand Corporation in the 1970s found that even a modest level of cost-sharing led to patients using less health care. But some have pushed back against that conclusion using other data . Read full article > >
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A ‘skin in the game’ experiment
Protesters from the ”Occupy Wall Street” movement heckled News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch during a speech at an education forum on Friday in San Francisco, California, accusing him of of trying to profit from public education.
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VIDEO: Murdoch speech is heckled in US
Sino-Forest Corporation’s CEO Allen Chan resigns amid allegations of an accounting fraud by the Ontario Securities Commission.
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Sino-Forest CEO Allen Chan quits
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — At a General Electric flight simulator here, the visibility has been set at near zero to mimic thick rain and clouds. But a video console near the pilot shows a vivid picture of nearby mountains precise enough to allow a plane to take off or land despite the conditions. The system is one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed — and that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). Read full article > >
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GE ‘all in’ on aviation deal with China
Nick Heller, the private spy introduced two years ago in Joseph Finder ’s “ Vanished ,” is the guy you want on your side when your corporation needs deep background or your political life needs a cleanup. His job seems like a dream gig for a former intelligence operative who thrills at assessing damage and unearthing information for very substantial fees. But in “ Buried Secrets ,” Heller must uncover something far more urgent: a teenage kidnap victim, buried alive. That unspeakable terror is hardly new in American thrillers. Just last year, Lisa Scottoline buried the protagonist of “Think Twice” in a cornfield, and master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe has left generations scared witless with “The Cask of Amontillado.” But Finder rachets up the fear factor with a chilling techno-touch: Alexa, the 17-year-old daughter of billionaire Marshall Marcus, Heller’s longtime friend, is stuck in a crypt, her agony visible via a streaming video feed to her dad’s home computer. Read full article > >
The Media Equation: Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch’s Mind
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