Media giants may swap $11b in assets
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NEW YORK -- Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and John Malone may end two years of wrangling over Liberty Media Corp.'s stake in News Corp. with an $11 billion asset swap that gives Liberty control of DirecTV Group Inc.
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MEDIA giant News Corp and its secondbiggest shareholder, Liberty Media, are reportedly close to a share swap deal that would shore up Rupert Murdoch's control of his company.
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NEW YORK -- The world's largest media companies will grapple in 2007 with the need to invest in ventures for rapid growth while not tearing down their aging business models too quickly.
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News Corp.  is willing to go further than it has before in acceding to tighter safeguards of editorial independence as a condition of buying Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources close to News Corp.
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Media companies looking to acquire  Internet sensations YouTube and Facebook would need to take a  "big leap of faith" to pay current valuations on the takeover  targets, Time Warner Inc's boss was quoted as saying in an  interview.
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News Corp. (NWSa.N) is willing to go  further than it has before in acceding to tighter safeguards of  editorial independence as a condition of buying Dow Jones & Co.  Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing  sources close to News Corp.
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Media & professional: News Corp's bid for the Wall Street Journal is a bold play - not least because of the size of the offer.
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Speculation on private newspaper buyouts goes further down the rabbit hole.
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John C. Malone made news this week when his Liberty Media Corporation said it might increase its voting stake in the News Corporation through a complex stock swap.
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RUPERT Murdoch is literally buying back the farm - and the art and other myriad investments worth more than $50 million. As part of the proposed move of The News Corporation Ltd to the US, Mr Murdoch and his
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The Motley Fool - Yesterday, I wrote about how everyone and their neighbor seems to gunning for a slice of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod and iTunes business. And while I still believe it's possible for News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News), and Sony (NYSE: SNE - News) to erode some of Apple's market share for downloadable music, I don't expect the company to passively stand by as revenues drop.
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An investor group led by two  well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this  week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers  for up to &#36;600 million, a source close to the matter said on  Monday.
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News Corp. (NWSa.N) could finalize a  deal "as early as next week" to swap its controlling interest  in DirecTV Group Inc.  and other assets for Liberty  Media's  $11 billion stake in News Corp., a source  familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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The proposed transfer of News Corporation&#39;s domicile and primary listing to the US is almost certainly in the long-term interests of the group and its major shareholders, the Murdoch family.
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While The Wall Street Journal may eventually have new ownership, one Fool hopes a reduction in quality won't follow.
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NEW YORK Ruport Murdoch could make New York history if his reported bid to buy a three-story Manhattan penthouse goes through. The New York Times says the (b) billionaire CEO of News Corporation is offering 44 (m) million dollars for the Fifth Avenue pad.
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NEW YORK -- Media group Tribune Co. is weighing a proposal from Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell, who sold his office development company earlier this month in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, according to The New York Times .