Investors should have turned up heat on News Corp

Liberty Global’s $16 billion deal to buy British cable group Virgin Media will create one of the largest broadband companies in the world, and will pit Liberty mogul John Malone in a clash of the media titans against longtime rival Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. conglomerate. The deal is further evidence that the media and tech mergers and acquisitions market is revving up to levels not seen since the financial crisis. Earlier this week computer giant Dell announced plans to go private in a $24.4 billion deal. Virgin Media is the number two pay-TV company in the U.K.

MONTREAL • Economic life in Montreal was largely dominated by English-speakers in the early 20th Century and even into the 1960s. No longer. French-Canada produced a thriving business class. Companies that Francophones built, such as CGI Inc., an $8.7-billion firm now worth more than Blackberry, are global. Francophone chief executives are more the norm than the exception. French is the working language of Quebec.

More than one-third of the votes cast at News Corp.'s annual shareholders' meeting opposed returning Rupert Murdoch's two sons, James and Lachlan, to the board of directors.In a stinging rebuke, News Corp.

US and other auto manufacturers banking on increased car sales in China for 2012 have three reasons to be concerned. Blistering growth in Chinese auto sales is expected to plunge China is taking efforts to dampen foreign investment in autos Trade wars The Wall Street Journal reports

Continuing a recent trend, the senior directors, indeed the controlling shareholders, at Power Financial have received a less than overwhelming level of support from the company’s shareholders.

By John Rolfe: Last week the Board of Directors of Edgewater Technology Inc. (EDGW) received a letter from a shareholder, Mr. Ephraim Fields of Echo Lake Capital. In his letter Fields claimed that EDGW's stock had significantly underperformed while the company's senior management had received very generous compensation.

By Simon Johnson In Sunday’s New York Times magazine, Roger Lowenstein profiles Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan Chase.  The piece, titled “Jamie Dimon: America’s Least-Hated Banker,” is generally sympathetic, but in every significant detail it confirms that Mr. Dimon is now – without question – our most dangerous banker.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn slammed Navistar International Corp for naming a new chief executive without consulting large shareholders, and urged the board to offer four board seats to shareholders immediately. Navistar board's recent decision to appoint Lewis Campbell as chairman and interim CEO was "worse than ill-advised", since it did not discuss the decision with Icahn and three other shareholders who collectively own nearly 60 percent of the company, Icahn said in an open letter to the board on Sunday. "It is ... ...