US-bound News Corp. talks up &#39;new era&#39; after strong Q1 profits
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SYDNEY : Rupert Murdoch said his US-bound media giant News Corp. is on the &quot;cusp of a new and more prosperous era&quot; as it reported a jump in earnings and rival mogul John Malone moved to increase his stake in the company.
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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. could reach a pact on editorial independence as early as Monday, a source familiar with the situation said, heightening expectations a takeover deal could soon be reached.
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NEWS Corp led the sharemarket into record territory yesterday as investors here grew accustomed to the US way of corporate control, taking Monday&#39;s poison pill move by chairman Rupert Murdoch in their stride.
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News Corp. said on Wednesday that quarterly revenue rose 18 percent, helped by "Borat" movie ticket sales and "X-Men" DVDs, and it issued a very optimistic profit outlook for its Internet division next year.
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SYDNEY: News Corp Ltd said it plans to hold a shareholder vote on its proposed reincorporation to the US at its annual general meeting in Adelaide on Oct 26, after obtaining approval from Australia&#39;s Federal Court earlier yesterday.
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News Corp. said on Monday it was  "optimistic" over reaching a deal to buy back or swap Liberty  Media's shares in the company.
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Wall Street was set to open higher on Monday, with advertising group Grey Global (GREY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in the spotlight after a UK rival agreed to a $1.
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News Corp., the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said fiscal first-quarter profit rose 27 percent, partly because advertising sales increased at its cable-television networks including Fox News Channel.
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Buckling under investor pressure, Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. Ltd. agreed on Thursday to stick to Australia&#39;s tough corporate governance standards when it moves its legal base to the United States.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp says it has approved stricter corporate governance provisions, soothing critics of a plan to shift its legal base to the United States from Australia.
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SYDNEY : Global media giant News Corp caved in to investor pressure and adopted a series of corporate reforms aimed at averting a shareholder revolt over its plan to relocate from Australia to the US state of Delaware.
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News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch&#39;s pay rose 42 percent to $17 million as television shows such as ``American Idol&#39;&#39; and viewer gains at the FX cable network lifted profit in fiscal 2004.
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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp. (NWSa.N) and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  could reach a  pact on editorial independence as early as Monday, a source  familiar with the situation said, heightening expectations a  takeover deal could soon be reached.
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News Corp  has not seen signs of a business slowdown due to U.S. economic weakness and the company is in good shape to withstand the Hollywood writers strike, its chief operating officer said on Wednesday.
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News Corp.  shareholders  learned how much revenue a closely watched Internet division  would generate -- if they were lucky enough to be invited to a  meeting in Australia last week with Chief Executive Rupert  Murdoch.
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News Corp. shareholders approved Rupert Murdoch&#39;s plan to move his media company to the US from Australia, making it easier to raise money for expansion and allowing the stock to be
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Stock futures rose on Wednesday as  profits from Walt Disney Co  and Time Warner Inc   suggested that the profit picture is holding up outside of the  financial sector.