Washington Post to buy Slate
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WASHINGTON - The Washington Post Co. announced today that it is buying Slate, the online magazine started by computer giant Microsoft in 1996.
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The Pantagraph&#39;s parent company, Pulitzer Inc., which also owns the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and 12 other daily newspapers, may be for sale according to a Friday report by the Reuters news service.
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The Washington Post Company announced today that it is purchasing Slate, an online newsmagazine owned by Microsoft.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was buying U.S.-based Grey Global Group in a &#36;1.52 billion cash and stock deal.
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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall  Street Journal, said it is to buy online news site operator  MarketWatch Inc. to grow the revenues it derives from the  Internet.
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Washington Post Co. on Tuesday said it  would buy Microsoft Corp.'s online magazine Slate, whose mix of  politics, news and culture has built a loyal following but  failed to yield significant profits.
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Web magazine pioneer Slate is to be snapped up by the Washington Post, the two companies have announced. The Post will buy the publication from current owner Microsoft, but details of the deal were not released.
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MarketWatch is sold for $500 million and Slate is next. Will there be a spate of other sites on the block? Probably, but the most fevered M & #038;A activity will be among blogs. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Microsoft is in talks to buy a stake in the social networking site Facebook, the Wall Street Journal says.
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The Washington Post Co. is buying Microsoft&#39;s online magazine Slate. The acquisition by the Post will reduce Slate&#39;s presence in the Puget Sound area, said Jacob Weisberg, its New York-based editor.
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Dow Jones &amp; Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for approximately $519 million, the companies said today.
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Blackstone Group of New York is planning to sell the Washington portfolio formerly owned by Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the nation's largest landlords, sources close to the deal said.
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WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. sold its popular Slate online magazine Tuesday to The Washington Post Co., a move that makes Slate&#39;s political commentary and quirky feature articles more broadly available across the Internet.
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The New York Post reported Wednesday that Maurice R. Greenberg had been buying hundreds of thousands of The New York Times CompanyÂs shares.
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The sale completes Slate's transformation from an experiment in the new media in 1996 to a respected brand name in journalism.
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News Corp. NWSa.N on Monday said it   has agreed to buy a U.K. jobs recruitment site for an   undisclosed sum to reach a younger audience.
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Philip F. Anschutz, Denver billionaire and D.C. United investor, yesterday announced the purchase of the Journal Newspapers Inc., the Alexandria publisher of three Washington area suburban daily newspapers, through a newly created investment arm called Clarity Media Group.