Pearson seeking partners for Dow Jones bid: report
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Financial Times publisher Pearson Plc  is seeking partners to make a possible bid for Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. , the Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
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General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on Sunday.
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Dow Jones & Co.&#39;s board and Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. have completed talks on a $5 billion  buyout of Dow Jones and are expected to announce a deal next  week, London&#39;s The Business weekly magazine reported on Friday.
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The General Electric Company and Pearson are exploring a joint bid for Dow Jones & Company, people familiar with the talks said.
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Dow Jones & Co. , which has been in talks on a takeover by News Corp. , will meet with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle as Dow Jones explores its options, according to a report in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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Acquiring the publisher of the Wall Street Journal might appear to run against Pearson Plc's  current strategy of focusing on education, but a deal could mean the eventual sale of its Financial Times newspaper.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. are close to a pact that would protect the  journalistic independence of The Wall Street Journal if News  Corp. acquired the media company, according to newspaper  reports on Sunday.
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Dow Jones shareholders seek guarantees from suitor News Corp of the independence of the Wall Street Journal.
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Dow Jones & Co. , in talks for a  takeover by News Corp. (NWSa.N), met with supermarket magnate  Ron Burkle and Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan on Tuesday  in an effort to find an alternative offer, a source familiar  with the situation said.
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Rupert Murdoch finally met face-to-face with the controlling family of Dow Jones yesterday, attempting to woo the wary owners into taking his $5 billion bid for the company and its crown jewel, the Wall Street Journal.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  has  given potential suitors until the end of the week to express  interest in its 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange  Group Plc  but has not yet received any offers, the Wall  Street Journal reported.
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By JERRY KRONENBERG  Two new parties interested in potentially countering Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for The Wall Street Journal's parent have emerged.  Cambridge's Ownership Associates, which the union representing Journal parent Dow Jones & Co.
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An Internet entrepreneur and a Wall  Street group have joined a list of potential rivals to News  Corp.&#39;s $5 billion bid for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow  Jones & Co. Inc., an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union  said on Thursday.
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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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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp. (NWSa.N) and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  could reach a  pact on editorial independence as early as Monday, a source  familiar with the situation said, heightening expectations a  takeover deal could soon be reached.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.   would consider working with a group of investment banks behind  a rival trading platform if its bid for the London Stock  Exchange  fails, Chief Executive Bob Greifeld told three  British newspapers.
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Pearson PLC and General Electric Co. abandoned a possible bid for Dow Jones &amp; Co., increasing Rupert Murdoch's chance of succeeding with his $5 billion offer for the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.