Recently, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News International's parent company News Corporation, said it would begin charging for online news content.
Mr Murdoch insisted - on being asked by another Labour MP Paul Farrelly - that the debacle at the News of the World does not undermine his competence as an executive at News Corporation, parent company of News International.
The second question is whether the closure of the News of the World will be seen by the media regulator, Ofcom, as making News Corporation, parent company of News International, a more or less fit-and-proper owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's biggest television business (it is Ofcom's statutory duty to adjudicate on that important issue).
News of the World's parent company News International paid out compensation to various victims, including actress Sienna Miller and publicist Max Clifford, and issued a public apology in April.
My then husband, a detective chief superintendent, appeared on "Crimewatch" to appeal for information in the unsolved 1987 murder of private detective Daniel Morgan, whose business partner Jonathan Rees was alleged to have supplied News of the World's parent company News International with illegally obtained information.
News Corporation is the parent company of News International, which runs the Sun.
The management and standards committee of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, confirmed it had "terminated the contract of a member of staff in relation to his previous work".
Apart from anything else, News Corporation - the parent company of News International - continues to own 39% of BSkyB and Mr Murdoch will remain on BSkyB's board as a non-executive director.
Potential liability flows from journalists at News of the World to its parent, News International, and to that company's parent, News Corp.
The clever wheeze that Mr Hunt had negotiated with James Murdoch of News Corporation was that News Corporation would spin off 61% of Sky News into a new independent company, which would have a new board of its own and would be funded by News Corporation for a decade.
Brooks, formerly chief executive of News of the World's parent company, News International, part of Murdoch's News Corp. empire, also faces a charge of perverting the course of justice.
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Under the proposal, which is subject to a consultation period, shares in Sky News would be distributed among existing shareholders, with Mr Murdoch's company News Corp retaining a 39.1% stake.
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Related is competing to develop a 26-acre site atop rail yards on the edge of the Hudson River in New York, with media and entertainment company News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) as the anchor tenant in its proposal.
The issue at hand appears to have officially shifted away from the suspicion that Stewart had inside information when she sold her holdings of ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) one day before the biotech company disclosed bad news about a drug, probably because there isn't enough evidence to suggest that she did so.
Faber has worked on intellectual property issues for the likes of International Rectifier (nyse: IRF - news - people ), a semiconductor company, and Hertz (nyse: HTZ - news - people ) rental car company.
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It was directed against News Corp's directors for overpaying when the company bought Shine Group, a UK TV production company, from News Corp's chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth.
"The Simpsons" pokes frequent fun at the Fox network and parent company News Corp.
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Eight years later, I started a digital news company and learned from a set of Web denizens.
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But for company news, Dow Jones is working with sentiment which it tries to measure in terms of positive, negative or neutral depending on words used and where they occur in the story.
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Related is competing to develop a 26-acre site atop rail yards on the edge of the Hudson River in New York, with media and entertainment company News Corp. as the anchor tenant in its proposal.
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