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28 Oct, 2007 5:55 pm
... Michael Copps last week publicly released a letter he wrote to Chairman Martin ( whose office is just down the hall from Copps' office on the Eighth Floor of the FCC's headquarters
in Washington) urging the Chairman to initiate a proceeding to determine if the News Corporation's
acquisition of the Wall Street Journal is in the public interest. Copps points to the fact that the company currently owns another daily newspaper published ...
14 Dec, 2006 10:47 am
Here are three news items of interest on the corporate fraud front. Since well before the Sarbanes-Oxley law was passed in 2002, the
effort and energy put into investigating and dealing with corporate fraud has produced great changes for the...
13 Sep, 2007 1:23 pm
Network 2000 reported Tuesday that the number of women who serve on the boards of publicly traded corporations in Maryland has declined in the last year. Down from 9.35 percent
to 8.9 percent, Maryland dramatically lags the national average of 14.7 percent. One of the reasons for the gap: Maryland's industry profile doesn't match the national one. Our state
has a larger percentage of bioscience/technology companies, which tend to employ fewer women; Maryland also lacks significant manufacturing ...
4 Jan, 2007 3:28 am
... 4, 2007 Dissolution Action Thursday, January 4, 2007 By Beth Bar A shareholder in several closely-held corporations has convinced a state judge overseeing the dissolution of
the companies to reverse a special referee's valuation of the ... Media Company that will make Liberty the largest shareholder of DIRECTV, the biggest provider of satellite television.
This agreement will give News Corporation an approximate $11 billion stock buyback. Also, orthopedic
devices manufacturer Biomet Inc. has agreed ...
23 Jul, 2008 11:24 am
... ,200,000 Roger Cooke Precision Castparts Corp. $1,191,375 Terrence Linnert Goodrich Corporation $1,023,818 Entertainment Alan Braverman The
Walt Disney Company $4,450,000 Paul ... CBS Corporation $3,305,000 Michael Fricklas Viacom Inc. $2,809,875 Lawrence Jacobs News Corporation $2,650,000 Telecommunications Richard Massey Alltel Corporation $3, ... 550,000 Alan Braverman The Walt Disney Company $3,450,000 Richard Massey Alltel Corporation
$3,343,338 Russell Deyo Johnson & Johnson $2,746,200 Carrie ...
3 May, 2007 5:05 pm
... state, as part of a sweeping measure to regulate the telecommunications and cable industries. The bill, which is before the Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions
Committee, would prohibit networks from favoring one particular network destination or class of ... , has opted to "take no action" on a $US5 billion ($6.1 billion) takeover bid for the
company by News Corporation, after the bulk of the Bancroft family that controls the group opposed
the offer. Read more here (from The Australian). ...
8 May, 2007 3:34 pm
... national ID card. Read more here (from The Age). Photobucket is in advanced talks to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a division of the News Corporation. Read more here (from the New York Times). The use of free group lists for mass e-mails ... are
regular watchers of television, DVDs and videos, researchers said on Monday. Read more here (from CNET News.com). Major Internet entertainment
companies are not prone to big pronouncements about online advertising, given the ongoing changes in the ...
11 Feb, 2008 12:11 pm
... -the field, he said, which continues to draw the majority of graduates of top schools. He noted that the leading corporate law firms have remained relatively stable and free
from the kind of volatility seen in the investment banking sector ... reflect the value that lawyers bring to major transactions; law firm demand for top-quality entry-level
corporate lawyers will intensify; one of the effects will be a corresponding spike in competition among law schools for corporate law professors, especially ...
30 Sep, 2008 6:26 pm
... investor Carl Ichan, and Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman. The blog is pleased to announce the significant representation that members of the Harvard Program on Corporate
Governance have on the Directorship 100 list: • Lucian Bebchuk, the program's director, was selected in the "professors" ... Murray and Joann Lublin of the Wall Street Journal, Andrew
Ross Sorkin of the New York Times, Fox news CEO Roger Ailes, Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, and Jim Cramer of TheStreet dot com. This selection would
not ...
10 Jan, 2008 12:26 am
... 10, 2008 By Beth Bar "After a record year for mergers and acquisitions, activity will dip this year due to a decline in transactions, corporate attorneys predict. Lawyers
hope that "strategic" deals by American companies and an increase in transactions by foreign companies and funds will ... US BioEnergy Corporation for approximately $686 million in an all-stock deal. Also, Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has purchased eight News Corporation television stations for $1.1 billion."
22 Dec, 2006 6:42 am
News Corporation said Friday it has agreed to swap its controlling interest in DirecTV Group, other
assets and cash for Liberty Media's $11 billion stake in News Corporation. The deal ends two years of
negotiations between long-time associates Rupert Murdoch and Liberty Media Chairman John Malone, who once helped rescue Mr. Murdoch from near [...]
3 Jul, 2007 6:43 am
The News Corporation, owner of The New York Post, bought two weekly newspapers in the Bronx Monday,
giving it a chain of neighborhood papers throughout three New York City boroughs that it hopes will complement The Post. News Corporation did not disclose the price it paid to the owners, David Kiesman and John Collazzi, for the [...]
10 Jan, 2008 7:00 am
News Corporation early Thursday shot down speculation that it might seek to acquire Monster
Worldwide, which runs the online job site Monster.com, after the Seeking Alpha blog reported a rumor that a $4.8 billion deal might be in the offing. A spokesman for News Corporation told DealBook the rumor was "categorically untrue." Buyout chatter has [...]
6 Feb, 2007 2:35 pm
... booming local online search market via a partnership with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Google Maps directly targets customers of Telstra's highly profitable ... asked Google to reduce the detail in a selection of images. Read more here (from BBC News). Microsoft rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene ... just going to be different ways of doing it."
Read more here (from USA Today). News Corp.'s Fox Television Stations, which owns 35 TV stations ...
2 May, 2007 4:49 pm
... journal community owned by Internet search engine Google. Read more here (from Reuters). News Corporation's $6 billion bid for Dow Jones and its jewel, The Wall Street ... but died before a Senate vote occurred. Read more here (from CNET
News.com). Dell may have won applause from customers for its decision to sell commercial PCs ... and removing toxic chemicals from new
products. Read more here (from CNET News.com). Telstra and Microsoft will pave the way for closer co-operation in online services for ...
10 May, 2007 5:16 am
If you are already an online subscriber to New York Law Journal Corporate Update Servoce you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the
full text of articles listed Click here to go ... , the Dolan family, to take it private in a deal worth $22 billion in cash and assumed debt. Also, Fortress Investment Group will
purchase Interpool Inc. for $2.4 billion and Robert Murdoch and News Corporation have made a bid of
$5 billion to purchase the Dow Jones Company."
24 Mar, 2007 4:46 pm
Leading Australian internet portals may participate in moves by News Corporation and NBC Universal to
build an online video site that is pitching for the market of the Google-owned YouTube. Both Ninemsn and Yahoo7 have responded ... participating in commercials and other outside
activities that could erode their journalistic independence. But Jeffrey Schneider, a spokesman for the news division, said Congdon is a
contributing commentator, not a journalist. Read more here (from the Los Angeles Times). ...
7 May, 2007 3:31 pm
... Dow Jones & Co before a bid for the company by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, The Wall
Street Journal has reported. Read more here (from The Australian ... drive Ohio University students to transfer elsewhere. Read more here (from CNET News.com). A new survey about how consumers use technology has shattered industry assumptions and ... lyrics into digital-music products today. Read more here
(from CNET News.com). In the wake of a tussle over questionable methods and cooperation rates of big online ...
18 Jun, 2007 3:46 pm
... Cannes when Tsuneo Watanabe will be named media person of the year at the International Advertising Festival. Read more here (from The Australian). In addition to news aggregators like Google and Yahoo, newspapers need to watch out for online competition from a less obvious source--social ... group and General Electric
are believed to be considering a joint bid for Dow Jones to thwart the $US5 billion ($5.95 billion) offer from Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation. Read more here (from The Australian).
4 Feb, 2007 1:32 pm
... criticized Novell for partnering with Microsoft. Now the Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell's right to sell new versions of Linux. Read more here (from CNet
News.com). Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, has given each of his six children $US100 million ($129 million) in News non-voting stock, a move that
has sparked renewed interest in succession plans at the international media company. Read more here ( ...
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