News Corp. Acts to Block Bids
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. moved  on Monday to prevent a hostile bid from U.S. cable company  Liberty Media Corp., launching a plan to issue stock options  that would dilute the stake of any predator.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.&#39;s  board of  directors said on Thursday that the company plans to consider  alternatives for the company, including a $5 billion bid by  Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N) to buy it.
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News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has made a move to head off any surprise hostile takeover threat from Liberty Media boss John Malone.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp., the world&#39;s fifth-largest media company and owner of the Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel, adopted a plan to thwart any hostile takeover after John Malone&#39;s Liberty Media Corp.
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Dow Jones & Co.  delivered a  proposal to safeguard its editorial independence to News Corp.  (NWSa.N) on Friday, the first step in a negotiation about a  possible News Corp. takeover, according to the online edition  of the Wall Street Journal.
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After watching eBay siphon off their classified advertising revenue, newspapers are turning to an outsourced auction firm, CityXpress, to fight back. By Daniel Terdiman
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Microsoft Corp.  wants to  block an effort for a shareholder vote forcing the world's  largest software maker to explain its support for Internet  network neutrality, according to a company letter obtained by  Reuters on Tuesday.
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The Carlyle Group has indefinitely postponed the sale of a cable communications company because bidders did not meet the District private-equity firm's price, sources said yesterday.
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General Electric Co.  and Pearson Plc  may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co.  with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. moved  to ward off any hostile bid from U.S. cable company Liberty  Media Corp. with a plan to issue stock options to dilute the  stake of any predator.
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Rupert Murdoch wants to put up another gate to keep media mogul John Malone from buying a bigger stake in his kingdom. One week after adopting a poison pill to protect his News Corp.
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The Wall Street rumor mill is working overtime, spinning off speculation about how soon a decision will be announced in the US government lawsuit aimed at blocking Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) proposed takeover of PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq
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"The final approval is in the next two, three week's time, or not at all."  RUPERT Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, has said he has no plans to raise his $5 billion bid for media group Dow Jones. via The Courier Mail
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A key member of the family that controls Dow Jones & Co.  opposes a $5 billion bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , fearing the sale would endanger the Wall Street Journal's independence, the paper reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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In the largest rejection of a buyout ever, shareholders blocked the Dolan familyâs two-year, $10.6 billion effort to take Cablevision private.
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General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on...
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  said on Wednesday that its board will take over discussions over News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid to buy the company.