Washington Post Buying Slate.com
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The Washington Post Company is expected to announce that it has purchased Slate, an online newsmagazine owned by Microsoft.
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Dow Jones & Co. DJ.N, publisher of the  Wall Street Journal, said it is to buy online news site  operator MarketWatch Inc. MKTW.OQ to grow the revenues it  derives from the Internet.
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The move is an important step toward a purchase by the News Corporation of The Wall Street Journalâs owner, Dow Jones.
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Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy online financial news provider MarketWatch Inc.  for about &#36;463 million in a bid to boost its revenue from the fast-growing Internet advertising market.
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The firm is poised to buy a 5% share in the popular social networking website, according to reports.
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Blog: The Business.com site is on the auction block; it could fetch $300 million to $400 million, according to reports.
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WSJ.com to become worth what you pay for it.
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Dow Jones & 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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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, agrees to buy internet news site Marketwatch for $519m.
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NEW YORK, November 15  - Dow Jones &amp; Company (DJ.NYS) has reached an agreement to buy the internet news site, MarketWatch Inc, for about $519 million.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--News Corp. announced today it bought photo- and video-sharing site Photobucket and Web 2.0 tools site Flextor for undisclosed amounts.
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The Washington Post Company said yesterday that it had purchased Slate, an online magazine owned by Microsoft. The sale completes Slate&#39;s transformation from an experiment in the new media in 1996 to a respected brand name in journalism.
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Financially, under Microsoft, the Slate online magazine has struggled to move past the break-even point. But the Washington Post Co.
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Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook  about buying a minority stake in the fast-growing online social  network that could value the company at $10 billion or more,  the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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An investor group led by two  well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this  week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers  for up to &#36;600 million, a source close to the matter said on  Monday.
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Plaxo, a site that helps users  keep their friends' contact information up to date, is  considering a sale of the company for as much as $200 million,  media reports said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Taiwan agreed to buy popular blog site Wretch.cc in a deal the companies expect to push them into the Web 2.0 era in Taiwan. Wretch.cc is the most popular site in Taiwan offering Web services broadly defined as Web 2.0, which entails mixing user-generated content and multimedia applications such as video. The site offers blogs, video blogs, and photo albums, and had announced plans to expand to video publishing similar to YouTube next year. Teaming up with Yahoo will help it invest in new services and give its users access to Yahoo technology and resources, the company said in a statement Thursday. Wretch.cc, Taiwan's most popular blogging site, with around 2.8 million members, will continue to operate independently, it said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the companies. Yahoo said the companies hope to finalize the deal early next year. The Yahoo-Wretch.cc deal requires approval by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission and other regulatory agencies before it can be finalized. The deal highlights the continuing trend of U.S.Internet giants such as Yahoo to expand into new services by buying Web upstarts. Google, for example,Â agreed to pay $1.65 billionÂ for video sharing Web site YouTube earlier this year, whileÂ eBay acquiredÂ Internet phone company SkypeÂ last year in a multi-billion dollar deal. For Yahoo, it's one of many acquisitions, including Flickr, andÂ De.licio.usÂ in recent years. It's also another Yahoo purchase in Asia, where U.S. Internet companies have had a tough time attracting users on their own. Yahoo Taiwan grew out of Yahoo's 2000 purchase of Kimo.com, the most popular portal on the island at the time. And last year, YahooÂ agreed to pay $1 billionÂ in cash and transfer all of its Chinese businesses to Alibaba.com for a 40 percent stake in the company. Jason Chiang, an analyst at Access Rating Online (ARO), said the deal makes sense for both companies, but noted that Yahoo had already seen significant success with its own blog site in Taiwan. Yahoo opened its first blog site for users late last year, but by the end of August, had the second largest number of hits per month after first place Wretch. MSN Spaces took third, ARO said, followed by Yam.com's blogs and Xuite blogs.