New York: Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama Administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy. "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," News Corp's chairman and chief executive officer posted on his personal Twitter account Saturday. Murdoch, whose media empire includes Fox TV,...
10:20 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New York: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has rung in the New Year with a new Twitter account that includes praise for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and opinions on President Barack Obama's policies and the Steve Jobs biography. By Monday night, just two days after he started his Twitter account, the 80-year-old chief of News Corp had already issued more than 20 tweets and acquired 74,000 followers. Teri Everett, a...
01:48 PM, Jan 03, 2012
London: More than 800 people have had their telephones illegally hacked by the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, British police investigating the alleged practice said on Saturday. A statement by London's Metropolitan Police said 2,037 people had been contacted during the year-long investigation, of whom 803 are alleged victims of hacking by the best-selling tabloid, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It was the first time police provided an...
12:26 AM, Dec 11, 2011
London: Newly disclosed evidence in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal confirmed on Wednesday that an outspoken critic of Rupert Murdoch was put under surveillance by his now defunct tabloid the News of The World. Lawmaker Tom Watson, who has led efforts to expose the extent of malpractice in Britain's newspaper industry, was followed for five days in 2009 by private investigator Derek Webb, a former police officer. Law firm Linklaters,...
04:57 AM, Dec 08, 2011
London: The phone-hacking story on Monday went beyond titles owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International with celebrity actor Hugh Grant alleging that the Mail on Sunday tabloid may have hacked his phone for information to be used in sensational stories. Deposing before the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, ethics and practices of the British press, Grant said he could not think of any other way it could have got its...
11:44 PM, Nov 21, 2011
London: James Murdoch, fighting for his career, held his line that he was innocent of covering up phone-hacking at the News of the World tabloid and blamed other former executives in a UK parliamentary hearing on Thursday. But the 38-year-old News Corp executive and son of media mogul Rupert had no answer during his two-and-a-half-hour grilling to accusations he should have asked more questions, particularly when approving a huge payoff...
01:33 AM, Nov 11, 2011
London: News Corp's deputy chief James Murdoch on Thursday will appear before the British Parliament's Special Committee for a second round of questioning in connection with the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Analysts say how James handles the questions on the corruption that took place at News International will determine if he stays on in the company as father Rupert Murdoch's sucessor. ...
03:50 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New York/ London: James Murdoch is about to face his day of reckoning. The News Corp deputy chief operating officer will appear before a special committee of Britain's parliament on Thursday for a second round of questioning about a phone-hacking scandal at his company's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. According to company insiders, Murdoch family confidantes, analysts and industry observers, the committee's success in pinning the widespread corruption that...
04:35 AM, Nov 10, 2011
London: Hacking of phones of individuals at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was conducted on an "industrial scale", according to new revelations made on Tuesday, putting more pressure on his media empire in Britain and elsewhere. Covert surveillance was conducted not only of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, but the targets included Prince William, Prince Harry s girlfriend Chelsy Davy, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith, and Harry Potter star...
02:18 AM, Nov 09, 2011
London: A scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp threatened to spread to more than one title on Friday as sources said a journalist at the Sun newspaper had been arrested over allegations of police bribery. Police investigating events at the News of the World tabloid after a phone hacking scandal said they had arrested a 48-year-old in connection with payments made to police. A spokesman for News Corp's British newspaper...
01:33 AM, Nov 05, 2011
London: British police increased their estimate on Thursday of potential phone hacking victims of the News of the World tabloid to 5,795 people. The acknowledgment that hundreds of potential victims had been missed by police is a further embarrassment for London's police force, whose reputation has been tarnished by its failure to get to grips with the scandal. Two of the force's most senior officers have resigned amid criticism they...
03:33 AM, Nov 04, 2011
London: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International has reached an agreement to pay 2 million pounds to the family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked for information at the behest of the now defunct News of the World tabloid. Besides, Murdoch is personally donating 1 million pounds to six charity organisations, as agreed earlier this year. The settlement relates to the hacking of Milly s phone messages...
01:58 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Los Angeles: British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal. More than 100 people demonstrated on Friday outside the lot of News Corp's Fox Studios. Watson asked Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison was hired by News Corp and hacked the computer of...
03:53 AM, Oct 22, 2011
London: Authorities knew that Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler nine years before the scandal over the practice exploded, an English police chief said on Thursday. Surrey Police Chief Constable Mark Rowley acknowledged that his force knew as far back as April 2002 that someone linked to the News of the World had accessed Dowler's voicemail, although he said...
01:10 AM, Oct 21, 2011
London: A raft of public figures and crime victims have launched new legal claims against Rupert Murdoch's News International over allegations of phone hacking, including a man whose wife and daughter were murdered in a hammer attack. A source familiar with the matter said around 60 claimants had now lodged cases against News International, charging that they had their phones hacked to generate stories by people working for the company's...
02:02 AM, Oct 06, 2011
London: There was more bad news for media baron Rupert Murdoch on Friday as lawyers representing the murdered British teenager Milly Dowler said they would soon launch legal action against News Corp in the United States. It was the report that 13-year-old Dowler's phone was tapped allegedly at the behest of the News of the World that proved a tipping point and led to a series of events, including the...
07:29 PM, Sep 23, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked extensively into the voice mail of a minister in Britain's former Labour government, according to three people familiar with the matter. The unauthorized access to voice mails left for Denis MacShane in 2004 and 2005, as he served as Minister for Europe, is one of a handful of cases to surface involving a serving government official in the phone hacking scandal that...
01:17 AM, Sep 23, 2011
London: Britain's parliament on Tuesday said it would recall Rupert Murdoch's son James to answer more questions in its probe into News Corp's hacking scandal and US shareholders raised the stakes in a legal battle with the company. The two moves reignited a long-running controversy that has already damaged the British establishment and threatened the media magnate's once untouchable political influence. British politicians said they would call James Murdoch for...
02:27 AM, Sep 14, 2011
London: A 35-year-old man on Wednesday became the sixteenth suspect to be arrested by British police as part of the investigation into phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid of media baron Rupert Murdoch. Officers from Scotland Yard arrested the unnamed man early on Wednesday morning after a swoop on his home. He was taken to a north London police station for questioning on suspicion of conspiracy...
04:21 PM, Sep 07, 2011
London: Four former News International executives challenged statements made to Parliament by their bosses, Rupert and James Murdoch, with one saying on Tuesday that the media mogul wrongly blamed outside lawyers for improperly investigating his company's phone hacking scandal. Jonathan Chapman, the former director of legal affairs with News International, said the elder Murdoch made a mistake when he blamed the London law firm Harbottle & Lewis for failing to...
01:57 AM, Sep 07, 2011
