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Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter

The former prime minister was reportedly present in March last year when Murdoch’s two daughters by his third wife were baptised on the banks of the Jordan.

New York scraps $27million contract with Rupert Murdoch company as hacking scandal proves too much to stomach

New York State has scrapped a controversial $27 million contract with one of Rupert Murdoch's companies. A lucrative contract between Murdoch subsidiary firm Wireless Generation and the state Education Department was this week rejected.

New allegations besiege Murdoch media empire

CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and RAPHAEL G. SATTER AP 07/11/2011
News International's chief executive Rebekah Brooks and The Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton quit over phone hacking scandal

The crisis rattling Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire claimed the two highest-level executives yet yesterday after days of mounting pressure from politicians and investors on two continents.

New allegations besiege Murdoch media empire

Rupert Murdoch's media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in hacking, deception and privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account information and stealing the medical records of his seriously ill baby son.

Phone hacking: 9/11 victims 'may have had mobiles tapped by News of the World reporters'

DESPERATE Rupert Murdoch yesterday flew to London to try to save his ­crumbling empire. He arrived in a cowboy-style hat to be hit by claims News of the World reporters hacked the phones of 9/11 victims. Murdoch held talks with News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, amid fears nine staff and three cops may face jail.

James Murdoch named News Corp. deputy COO

James Murdoch, the youngest son of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, was named deputy chief operating officer of the news and entertainment giant on Wednesday.

UK greenlights News Corp. buyout of Sky

Jane Wardell Yahoo! Finance 03/03/2011
UK greenlights News Corp. buyout of Sky

Rupert Murdoch's global media empire is poised to grow ever bigger after the British government approved plans by News Corp. to buy full control of satellite TV operator British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.

Met police reopen investigation into phone hacking at News of the World; Murdoch tabloid gives 'significant new evidence' to Scotland Yard as senior newsman Ian Edmondson is sacked

Scotland Yard reopened its investigation into phone hacking today – four years after the only convictions in the case – after the News of the World passed on "significant new information" alleged to implicate one of the paper's top executives in the practice.

Rupert Murdoch creates 'iNewspaper' - with the help of Steve Jobs

Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital "newspaper" called the Daily at the end of this month, according to reports in the US media.

Rupert Murdoch fights to take the 'sky' out of 'Skype'

BSkyB is trying to prevent Skype, the internet phone company, from continuing to use its name because the first three letters spell "sky".


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