When Autonomy Corp. was starting up in this historic university town, founder Mike Lynch stuck a sign on an office door that read “Authorized Personnel Only.” Behind the door, he told visitors, were 500 engineers working on “hush-hush” projects.
British prosecutors said they will charge two former top executives of News Corp’s U.K. newspaper unit and others with crimes as part of a bribery probe, expanding their criminal prosecution to include journalists at the company’s tabloid The Sun.
Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Thursday, setting the stage for a tense standoff between the Andean nation and the United Kingdom, which has vowed to extradite Mr. Assange to Sweden to face questioning in a sexual assault investigation.