Comcast launches $65bn bid to steal Murdoch’s Fox away from Disney
Comcast’s all-cash offer is 19% higher than Disney’s $52.4bn bid for Murdoch company and comes in week of seismic media change
What Elon Musk and George Soros can teach us about media credibility
Tesla founder hits out at journalists as anti-Brexit billionaire is accused by Daily Mail of undermining democracy
Fox told to engage with Comcast despite rival bid benefit to Murdoch
Comcast’s plan to top Disney’s $52bn bid deserves fair hearing, says activist investor
Revealed: Storyful uses tool to monitor what reporters watch
News Corp subsidiary’s news verification plugin also used to monitor users’ social media browsing
Comcast launches rival £22bn Sky takeover bid
US broadcasting and cable TV firm enters bidding war with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox
The Guardian view on ad tech: a tangled web
Editorial: Martin Lewis is suing Facebook. The question is whether companies can be held responsible for the behaviour of their software
Instagram to let users download everything they have ever shared
New portability tool will allow users to extract copy of own content posted on social network
Disney offers to buy Sky News to ease Murdoch’s £11.7bn takeover
Move aims to allay media plurality fears over 21st Century Fox’s takeover of British broadcaster
Snapchat’s UK ad revenue set to overtake Twitter’s next year
UK arm – which earns about 10% of app’s global ad revenues – is forecast to bring in £181m
Huge cryptojacking campaign earns just $24 for hackers
Though 5,000-site attack suggests forcing visitors to mine cryptocurrency offers scant reward, it hasn’t stopped news platform Salon
One man’s mission to conquer space
Rocket Lab entrepreneur Peter Beck’s recent launch into orbit of Humanity Star drew a barrage of flak. But he remains undaunted
Suddenly, the mighty Murdoch is just another middleweight
Reduced in size, but more importantly reduced in ambition, the former Fox/News Corp empire will be a much-changed presence in public life
US regulator scraps net neutrality rules that protect open internet
Decision, which critics warn will hand control of the web to big cable companies, a major victory for FCC chair and Trump appointee Ajit Pai
21st Century Fox ‘restarts talks’ for possible sale to Walt Disney
Talks reportedly focus on film studio, cable channels, and networks such as India’s Star network and Sky in the UK
Are the Murdochs at war over the future of their media empire?
Rupert Murdoch’s relationship with younger son James questioned after news that 21st Century Fox considers selling film studio and stake in Sky to Disney