After serving as the public face of News Corp. in the phone hacking scandal, James Murdoch has resigned from a number of New Corp executive positions, the London Evening Standard reports. The titles he's reported to have given up include director of News Group Newspapers, which operates The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, and director of Times Newspaper Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times. Former Sky Italia head Tom Mockridge replaces him in both positions. The Murdoch son is also out as director of News International Holdings Limited. The Standard calls the resignations a "surprise move," but the son of the media mogul has plenty of News Corp. titles left: he is still in executive positions at BSkyB, News International, and News CorpKanye West joins Instagram

It's official! Kanye West now has an Instagram account and his first post is just what you'd expect from him.

Rapper Kanye West has finally joined Instagram. While he only has a single post so far – a cryptic image still from the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starred film Total Recall – he has already garnered close to a million followers. While that only represents 1 percent of wife Kim Kardashian's number of followers, early signs suggest that the self-professed 'number one rock star in the world' might well be on his way to challenge his partner for Instagram royalty. And in true Kanye West style, his 'following' status stands at zero.