Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in media, has joined Twitter; and he's gained over 80,000 followers in the short  time he's been a member.

The media baron's decision to join the social network follows a tumultuous...

Rupert Murdoch's plans to buy out the remaining shares in BSkyB have been given a massive boost, as the British Government has okayed News Corps proposal. He will be allowed to increase the corporation's shareholding from 39 per cent to 100 per cent,...

The Daily will not be an iPad exclusive digital publication forever, Rupert Murdoch confirmed at the launch event in New York.

"We've been quite honest with Apple about that," said the News Corp. CEO. "As other tablets get established we will...

Extra, extra, read all about it - media moguls team up for digital newspaper assault.

That's right people, two of the most successful businessmen in the world, Apple's Steve Jobs and News Corp's Rupert Murdoch, are going to take to the stage...

Leading industry figures from the web have rounded on Rupert Murdoch and suggested that he was wrong to put The Times behind a paywall. 

Speaking during a panel at the Future of Media event during Internet Week New York, Google News senior...

The New York Times, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire that includes the Wall Street Journal, The Times, the Sun and... er... MySpace, has begun taking steps to erect a paywall around the site that would mean that visitors would have to pony up...

News content from The Times and The Sun could soon be noticeably absent in online searches and news aggregators if News Corp's chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has is way.

Murdoch, not shy to speak out about how he feels Google has threatened...

Guardian newspaper execs are considering launching a "members' club" with additional content, as an alternative to the "paywall" subscription approach being taken by Rupert Murdoch's News International.

A survey sent out to registered members...

A few months back, Rupert Murdoch - the CEO of News Corp, which owns the Times and Sun newspapers - said he was planning to start charging for content on the websites of the Sun, The Times and the News of the World.

Well, he's talking about...

Access to the Times' and the Sun's websites will be for paying customers only within the next year, according to Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation that owns the papers.

Following the Wall Street Journal's apparently successful...

News Corp has warneed that it may be facing a tough economic environment for the rest of the year, but 2008 to date has been rosy.

The media giant posted a 21% year-on-year rise in pre-tax profits for the 12 months to 30 June, boosted by...

Just days ago, Microsoft said it would continue to pursue Yahoo whatever its quarterly results (which were good) as the deadline for its $43.6 billion bid creeps ever closer.

But chief executive Steve Ballmer has now told a press conference...

Microsoft has pre-empted the announcement of Yahoo's quarterly results saying that its takeover bid stands whatever the outcome is.

Its $43.2 billion offer for Yahoo was rejected way back in February, but a battle of words has been raging...

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has confirmed he is not going to get into a bidding war with Microsoft over Yahoo.

He did admit that his company, News Corp, has been in talks with yahoo over the possibility of combining Murdoch-owned MySpace...