Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $519M
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The company that owns the Wall Street Journal has agreed to pay $519 million to buy the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch. The weekend deal, which came after an auction that included bidders like Viacom
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Viacom Inc. plans to submit a bid to buy financial news provider MarketWatch Inc., according to a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The family that controls Dow Jones &  Co.  said on Thursday that it plans to meet with Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. to discuss his $5 billion bid to buy the  company, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  said on Wednesday that its board will take over discussions over News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid to buy the company.
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Bank of America and Chevron Corporation will replace Altria Group and Honeywell International in the widely-tracked Dow Jones Industrial Average stock barometer on February 19, Dow Jones said Monday.
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News Corp.'s $60 a share bid for Dow Jones & Co. Inc. is attractive and should be considered, its largest outside shareholder said on Wednesday.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. have "basically agreed" on safeguards to the editorial independence of Dow Jones' news operations, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, setting the stage for Dow Jones to accept a $5 billion buyout offer.
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Media & professional: The board of Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones was scheduled to meet last night for what could be executives' final discussions over Rupert Murdoch's audacious $5bn (Â£2.5bn) takeover bid.
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NEW YORK, Nov 4  - Media-entertainment giant Viacom Inc. expects to make a bid for financial newsgroup MarketWatch Inc., according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing disclosed Thursday.
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NEW YORK - Dow Jones &amp; Company is buying the business news service MarketWatch, owner of the website CBS.MarketWatch.com, in a $519m (Â£280m) deal after a bidding war for the company.
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Dow Jones (DJ:NYSE - news - research) won the auction for MarketWatch.com (MKTW:Nasdaq - news - research), striking a definitive agreement to acquire the online financial news provider for $18 a share, or about $519 million.
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MarketWatch Inc., one of San Francisco&#39;s surviving Internet companies, hit a notable online payday Monday, as venerable Dow Jones &amp; Co.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N)  has reached a tentative deal to buy Dow Jones & Co. Inc.   for $5 billion, though its controlling Bancroft family remained  divided on the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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LOS ANGELES -- Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s board will take the lead in deciding whether the Wall Street Journal publisher will be sold to News Corp. for $60 a share as MySpace.com founder Brad Greenspan offered the same price for 25 percent of the company.
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Viacom Inc., parent of CBS and MTV, said Thursday it expects to make an offer to buy the remainder of financial information and news provider MarketWatch Inc.
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Shares of MarketWatch Inc. rose nearly 7% after Dow Jones &amp; Co. announced it would buy the parent of financial news site CBS MarketWatch for $519 million in cash.
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News Corp&#39;s (NWSa.N) deal to buy Wall  Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc  should close  in the next 60 days, a top News Corp executive said on Monday.