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  • News Corporation
    News Corp. Announces $5 Billion Share Buyback

    Media giant News Corporation Tuesday said its board of directors has approved a $5 billion stock repurchase program.

  • Futures Pare Losses in Volatile Trading

    Futures shaved some losses Tuesday after investors shrugged off news that trade deficit jumped more than expected. Investors had been concerned over the spreading debt crisis in Europe in addition to an ongoing struggle to break the impasse over a reduction in the U.S. deficit.

  • Rupert Murdoch
    On the Board at News Corp.

    Rupert Murdoch's growing phone-hacking scandal continues to be the media story of the moment.

  • Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation
    Pressure Mounts Under News Corp, Threatens Acquisition of BSkyB

    A phone hacking scandal continues to rock the house of Rupert Murdoch, sending shares of News Corp plummeting as well as those of its acquisition target BSkyB.

  • Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation
    Likelihood of BSkyB Deal Now Just 10 Percent: Panmure

    News Corporation’s contentious proposed takeover of BSkyB is “all but dead” following the phone hacking scandal that hit the Murdoch-owned group’s British unit News International (NI), Alex DeGroote, analyst at Panmure Gordon said on Monday, as the deal comes under intense scrutiny from regulators.

  • James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation, Europe and Asia.
    Phone Scandal Poses Defining Test for a Murdoch Son

    James Murdoch faces a test as he jockeys to one day run NewsCorp, his father’s company, and salvage the biggest deal in its history, the takeover of British Sky Broadcasting, the New York Times reports.

  • Can Online Piracy Be Stopped?

    A massive new effort to crack down on intellectual property theft spans industries and every point of the content creation and distribution chain. It's called "Copyright Alert System" and it aims to stop people pirating from pirating content online, by very simply preventing them from surfing the web.

  • Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation
    News Corp BSkyB Takeover in Doubt After Scandal: Analyst

    The likelihood of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp being given UK government approval to complete its takeover of British Sky Broadcasting has "sharply contracted" over the last 24 hours, Alex De Groote, media analyst at Panmure Gordon told CNBC.

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    NewsCorp on Track to Sell MySpace by Mid-Year

    While the media buzzes about Facebook's new $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies and $50 billion valuation, MySpace is at the other end of the spectrum, facing more layoffs and on the auction block.

  • Rupert Murdoch
    Arrests Expected 'Within Days' Over Hacking: Sources

    The storm clouds brewing over Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire are set to move closer, with the arrest of up to five employees expected within days, sources familiar with the situation told CNBC.com Thursday.

  • hulu.com
    Hulu Sees Half a Billion in Revenue in 2011: CEO

    Hulu is on track to “approach half a billion in 2011 revenue” this year as the number of paying subscribers increases. Hulu, the Q2 leader in U.S. online video advertising, has seen a 67% growth in content hours since its launch in November.

  • Stocks End Higher Ahead of Jobs, Earnings

    Stocks closed to the upside in another thin trading session Wednesday after investors largely shrugged off a handful of weak economic news and looked ahead to Friday's employment report in addition to earnings season, which kicks off next week.

  • Stocks Edge Up Ahead of Earnings, Jobs Report

    Stocks were modestly higher in another thin trading session Wednesday after investors largely shrugged off a handful of weak economic news and looked ahead to Friday's employment report in addition to earnings season, which kicks off next week.

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    Scandal Grows in Britain Over Hacking of Girl’s Cell

    New allegations emerged on Wednesday in a scandal over phone-hacking by News Corporation newspapers in Britain, threatening to draw in Prime Minister David Cameron as political pressure mounted on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the company.

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    The Hills are Alive in Sun Valley

    This weekend, we celebrated America: Its rolling hills, its stars and stripes, and the entrepreneurial spirit that makes it tick.

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    British Tabloid Hacked Missing Girl’s Phone, Lawyer Says

    The cellphone of a British schoolgirl who went missing in 2002 and whose murdered body was discovered six months later was repeatedly hacked by the News of the World tabloid, the New York Times reported Monday.

  • hulu.com
    Hulu Talks to Sell 'Very Preliminary'

    Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Times reported today that "Google is in preliminary talks to buy online video pioneer Hulu," a number of sources very close to the negotiations tell me that all talks are "very preliminary" and it is "impossible to characterize anyone as being in the lead."

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    Specific Media's CEO Explains MySpace Buy

    Specific Media is a successful ad platform—why on earth would it want to get involved in the money-losing sinkhole that is MySpace? That's exactly the question I asked SpecificMedia's CEO Tim Vanderhook on CNBC today.

  • Stocks Close 2nd Quarter On a Bullish Note

    Stocks closed the second quarter on a bullish note, helped by Greece's efforts to stave off default and despite the end of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.

  • Futures Positive Despite Weak Jobs Picture

    US stock market futures pointed to a higher open  for Wall Street on Thursday as the Greek  parliament was expected to pass a second crucial vote to introduce 28 billion euros of spending cuts, tax hikes and privatizations.