ESPN buys world's biggest cricket Web site
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Walt Disney Co's sports network ESPN is  buying cricinfo, the world's largest specialist cricket Web  site, as it expands beyond its traditional strengths of  American football, basketball, baseball and Nascar.
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British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, Rupert Murdoch&#39;s UK pay-television arm, won an exclusive four- year contract to show live English cricket, cementing its grip on sports programming in Britain.
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Sky has been awarded exclusive rights to show cricket, strengthening its hold over televised sports. In a move that has received a mixed response from licensees, the broadcaster has added cricket to a growing
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ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, and Verizon Wireless, operator of  the nation's most reliable national wireless  broadband network, announced today an exclusive multi-year agreement to  deliver an unmatched ESPN mobile sports content line-up to Verizon  Wireless customers.
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The Boston Red Sox's principal owner  will buy half of the top team on the NASCAR racing circuit,  Roush Racing, in the first investment by a major league  baseball team in the country's fastest-growing sport.
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The Web auction leader has acquired StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site, for $75 million in cash.
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Yahoo to purchase website geared towards creating online competitions.
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Baidu.com Inc., China's biggest Internet search site, on Thursday said it had acquired Hao123.com, a popular Chinese search directory, as Baidu seeks to fend off global players now eyeing the Chinese market.
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The internet's most heavily trafficked site is muscling in on the online music sector through its acquisition of Musicmatch in a $160 million deal announced Tuesday.
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The Boston Red Sox lineup card from Game 4 of the 2004 World Series brought a site-record bid of &#36;165,000 on MLB.com.
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Some of the world's best cricket players are due to be sold at auction in the Indian city of Mumbai.
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NEW YORK -    ESPN's decision to pull the plug on its mobile phone business is a hard testament to one of the worst-kept secrets in the cellphone world: Wireless partnerships are tough. Just eight months after kicking off the Sprint-based service with Super Bowl advertising, ESPN last week said it was closing down Mobile ESPN.
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Yahoo has acquired a stake in Indian Internet advertising company Tyroo MediaÂ to help it capture more of the country's fast-growing online ad market.
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A reliever in the Cleveland Indiansâ system set up a Web site through which fans could purchase a piece of his future major league earnings.
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ESPN-Star, a joint venture of Walt Disney Co. and News Corp., has won the broadcast rights to matches of the International Cricket Council, the governing body's Web site said.
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There has been talk of the Indian online advertising and search driven portal landgrab is beginning with Yahoo &#038; Google possibly targeting acquisitions of Rediff and other popular Indian web destinations, but Yahoo just made a move which is quite similar to their Right Media strategy in the US. Yahoo has acquired a 35% stake in [...]
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The world's leading sports management and marketing firm is to be bought by a New York  investment firm for an undisclosed fee.