Dow Jones board takes over talks
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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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The family that controls the Dow Jones & Company released a statement saying that they would meet with the News Corporation to discuss its $5 billion bid.
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A Dow Jones  board member who is  also part of the family that controls the company has launched  a last-ditch effort to block a takeover by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s  News Corp. (NWSa.N), the Wall Street Journal reported on  Sunday.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s controlling Bancroft family reversed course and said it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to discuss his $5 billion bid for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Directors of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, will lead talks over the $5bn bid from News Corp.
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Dow Jones won out over a list of competing media bidders to gain control of MarketWatch with its $18-a-share offer. If the buy is approved by shareholders, Dow Jones will gain a valuable foothold in the fast
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The Dow Jones board of directors will take over negotiations of any sale of the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the board said yesterday, pushing aside the company's controlling family, which has done little since meeting with Murdoch more than two weeks ago.
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Media & professional: Family controlling Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones to meet Rupert Murdoch to discuss his $5bn takeover bid.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission is investigating Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  board  member David Li over an insider trading case linked to News  Corp.&#39;s (NWSa.N) bid for the Wall Street Journal publisher, Dow  Jones reported on Wednesday.
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Dow Jones & Co., which has been in  talks for a takeover by News Corp., will meet with supermarket  magnate Ron Burkle as Dow Jones explores its options, a source  familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Members of the far-flung Bancroft family converged in downtown Boston yesterday for a seven-hour meeting to discuss the fate of Dow Jones &amp; Co., the media conglomerate they have controlled for more than a century, and one key family member said he expects a decision to be reached by the end of the week about Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid ...
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones &amp; Co. board members agreed in principle on a plan for editorial independence at The Wall Street Journal if Murdoch acquires the company, said three people briefed on the talks.
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The News Corporation and advisers for Dow Jones are close to agreeing on terms to protect The Wall Street Journalâs independence if the company is taken over.
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An announcement could come as early as today that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the Dow Jones board of directors have agreed on editorial protections for the Wall Street Journal, allowing the two sides to start discussing Murdoch's bid for the company and its high-profile newspaper.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on  Tuesday that its board was prepared to recommend that its  shareholders accept a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N).
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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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The Bancroft family, which controls media firm Dow Jones, is to meet to discuss a $5bn bid from News Corp.