Rupert Murdoch - News Corp

Barack Obama ‘could worsen crisis’: Rupert Murdoch

Filed under Predictions, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp, Interviews
November 2, 2008 12:43 pm

NEWS Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has warned that Barack Obama could worsen the world financial crisis if he is elected US president next week and implements protectionist policies. In an ... Read more »

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Lachlan Murdoch loses CMH backer

Filed under Deals, James Packer, Billionaire kids, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp
March 8, 2008 10:07 am

Lachlan Murdoch’s planned media sector comeback has stumbled after he lost the support of one of his chief backers in his proposed A$3.3bn (US$3bn) purchase of Australia’s Consolidated Media Holdings ... Read more »

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James Murdoch steps up as News Corp heir apparent

Filed under Billionaire kids, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp
December 8, 2007 8:23 pm

  Rupert Murdoch’s younger son James is to return to News Corp (NWSa.N) to head its Asian and European operations cementing his position to eventually take over the global media ... Read more »

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Triumph of a billionaire tabloid king

Filed under Deals, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp
November 28, 2007 7:02 pm

A billionaire tabloid king, a divided family of heirs to one of the world’s most prestigious newspapers and a cast of seasoned Wall Street dealmakers sound like characters for a ... Read more »

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Murdoch strays into Georgian politics

Filed under Politics, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp, Badri Patarkatsishvili - Imedi
November 2, 2007 6:41 pm

News Corp, the global media empire headed by Rupert Murdoch, usually does its political homework before investing in a new market. But its recent intervention in Georgia, the former Soviet ... Read more »

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Georgian TV chief turns to Rupert Murdoch

Filed under Politics, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp, Badri Patarkatsishvili - Imedi
November 1, 2007 8:32 pm

 billionaire Georgian businessman, who is financing growing public opposition to President Mikheil Saakashvili, has turned to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of global media group News Corp, in an effort to protect ... Read more »

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Murdoch sells $20m-chunk of News Corp shares

Filed under Rupert Murdoch - News Corp
September 17, 2007 2:11 pm

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, has sold just over $20.5m (£10.1m) in company stock.Mr Murdoch sold the shares on Monday, according to a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission made this week. read the rest published by Guardian here: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2169365,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=24

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Vanity Fair publishes the anual power ranking: The Top 100

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Steve Jobs - Apple, Sergey Brin - Google, Stephen Schwarzman - Blackstone, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, Rupert Murdoch - News Corp, Larry Page - Google
September 6, 2007 12:44 pm

  1  Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. (last year: 1) Murdoch fulfilled a long-held ambition to own The Wall Street Journal after making a stunning, cunning, $5 billion offer for Dow ... Read more »

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