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S&P Global and IHS Markit said on Monday they would sell a couple of businesses to satisfy antitrust requirements attached to the $44 billion merger of the financial information providers.

News Corp said on Monday it has agreed to acquire petroleum analytics provider Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and related assets from S&P Global and IHS Markit for about $1.15 billion in cash. (Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

Marketing services company Valassis Communications Inc said Monday it has settled its antitrust suit against rival News Corp, a deal that came nearly a month after a jury began hearing testimony in the case in New York federal court.

Lawyers for marketing company Valassis Communications Inc returned to New York federal court on Wednesday to present evidence they claim will show News Corp employed anticompetitive tactics to maintain its dominance in the market for in-store promotions.

An Australian court on Friday ordered a dozen media firms to pay a total of A$1.1 million ($842,000) in fines for breaching a suppression order on reporting the conviction, since overturned, of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sexual assault.

Wall Street Journal parent News Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as the company's digital push helped its Dow Jones unit attract more subscribers.

Wall Street Journal parent News Corp reported a 3% rise in third-quarter revenue on Thursday, as the company's digital push helped its Dow Jones unit attract more subscribers.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has abandoned plans to launch a traditional TV news channel in Britain after deciding it was not commercially viable, an emailed memo to staff shows.

Fox Corp chief executive Lachlan Murdoch will return to the United States from a months-long Australian sojourn in early September, a spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.

News Corp will acquire the consumer unit of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co for $349 million in cash, the Rupert Murdoch-led media company said on Monday, marking its second buyout in nearly a week.

News Corp is nearing an agreement to purchase the consumer arm of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Thursday it would acquire Los Angeles-based financial news firm Investor's Business Daily (IBD) from O' Neil Capital Management for $275 million.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reached a content-supply deal with Facebook Inc in Australia, the companies said on Tuesday, a step toward settling a dispute that saw the social media giant briefly shut down thousands of pages in the country.

News Corp said on Monday it had reached a multi-year agreement to provide Facebook Inc users access to news in Australia. (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed on Friday to press ahead with laws to force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, saying he had received support from world leaders after the social media giant blacked out all media.

The New York Post Group named Keith Poole as its new editor-in-chief, the newspaper's parent company News Corp said on Tuesday.

Media baron Rupert Murdoch received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, a day before prominent opinion host Fox News's Tucker Carlson raised suspicion over the marketing strategy for the vaccine.

News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch, 89, has received the COVID-19 vaccine in Britain at his local doctor's surgery, a statement issued on his behalf said on Friday.