U.K.’S HACKERGATE SCANDAL REARS ITS HEAD AGAIN

Britain’s “hackergate” scandal was revived today (Monday) as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), equivalent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said that it would look into charges that British police failed to investigate thoroughly charges that reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World had hacked into the voicemail of celebrities and politicians. The move, said […]

REPORT: SOME BSKYB EXECS WILL FLEE IF MURDOCH TAKES OVER

If Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp succeeds in buying up the 59.9 percent of home satellite provider British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) that it doesn’t already own, top executives of the company may move elsewhere, the London Financial Times observed today (Monday), quoting one investor as saying, “I think executives leaving is not just a possibility, it […]