Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Monday it would sell its Australian cable TV and streaming unit Foxtel to British over-the-top sports streaming and entertainment platform, DAZN for A$3.4 billion ($2.13 billion), including debt.
News Corp. has defeated a shareholder proposal to adopt a recapitalization plan to eliminate News Corp's dual-class capital structure that includes regular shares and super-voting share, most of which are owned by the Murdoch family.
Activist investor Starboard Value had challenged ownership structure, as Murdoch family controls 41% of company votes
News Corp said on Wednesday that investors rejected a proposal by activist investor Starboard Value to break the Murdoch family's grip on the publisher by ending a dual class voting structure.
Activist investor Irenic said it would back fellow dissident Starboard Value's push to collapse News Corp's dual class share structure. Irenic previously pushed to block a considered merger between Rupert Murdoch's two companies, Fox and News Corp.
Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones sued the AI startup this week, alleging copyright infringement.
Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success.
NYP Holdings, Inc. and Dow Jones, subsidiaries of News Corp, jointly filed the lawsuit against Perplexity AI in Manhattan federal court on Monday.
News Corp considered ditching Google's advertising products in 2017 – but decided against it after determining it would cost the company at least $9 million in lost revenue, a former executive at The Post's publisher testified Tuesday.
Starboard moves to collapse News Corp's dual class stock in challenge to Rupert Murdoch
Hedge fund Starboard Value has filed a shareholder resolution to do away with the dual-class shares that allow Rupert Murdoch to control News Corp , the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, according to people familiar with the matter.
News Corporation shares rose 3% after Q4 financial results. Revenue and adjusted earnings per share beat forecasts, but some results were mixed at the segment level. Despite overall positive performance, further market-beating upside from here is unlikely.