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Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants.

Here's what's happening in the world of business, Tuesday, July 19 Murdoch on Trial With the British Parliament opening hearings into the News Corp (NWSA) phone hacking scandal, Bloomberg reports that the media conglomerate "is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief...

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal with a public statement of contrition and a personal apology to the family of a...

Score a victory for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie against the tabloids that hound their every move. The celebrity couple sued and won an undisclosed amount of damages from the UK tabloid News of the World at a hearing in a London court on Thursday. Brangelina sued the newspaper in January over a...

Jeez, is it really that slow a news week? Sure, Rupert Murdoch made some news on News Corp.'s fiscal-year-end earnings call yesterday, declaring that the company will adopt pay models for all its news websites by this time next year, including the websites of Fox News, the Sun and News of the...

Rupert Murdoch has always shown a remarkable ability to shrug off public relations problems with seemingly genuine indifference. This impressive skill is being tested as the mounting furor over illegal mobile phone hacking by Murdoch-employed journalists is turning into one of the biggest PR...