News Corp

Chase Carey - Career - DirecTV
... During the time that Carey was working for News Corp, News Corp obtained controlling interest in Hughes Electronics, which at the time owned DirecTV, a satellite TV provider ... At DirecTV, Carey had plans to add 1 million new subscribers a year, and had met that goal when he left the company six years later ... In 2006, News Corporation sold its controlling interest in DirecTV to Liberty Media, in exchange for News Corp shares ...

Slingshot Labs - Company History
... Comparisons to Facebook's fund swirled around the company's launch, but News Corp and Myspace execs did not acknowledge them ... idea, and something I've wanted to do for a long time." Both DeWolfe and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch have been involved with the company's initial stages it was seeded by News Corp with US$15 million and 40 ...

Lawrence Jacobs - Biography - News Corporation - Resignation
... Jacobs announced that he would be stepping down from his position as General Counsel at News Corp ... in order to "pursue new opportunities." Jacobs' resignation came when he approached the company Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to inform him that News Corp ... in breach of his contract chairman CEO Rupert Murdoch was using former New York City Schools Chancellor, and newly appointed News Corp ...

Brad Greenspan
... the company and owned 10% of the company when it sold to News Corp in 2005 ... opposed the acquisition, and has been fighting News Corp both legally and publicly ever since ... of Euniverse from $70m to $650m when the company was sold to News Corp ...

San Antonio Express-News - History
... which almost doomed the paper, until a brand new company, the Express Printing Company, took control in 1875 ... In January 1881 a new rival newspaper, the Evening Light, was first published by A ... Beach and Diehl installed leased wire news service and published the first full stock market reports in a San Antonio paper ...