Posted on 10/13/2009 3:29:27 PM PDT by facedown
AN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bloomberg LP is buying BusinessWeek magazine in a deal that brings together a financial news service specializing in rapid-fire updates with a print publication struggling to adapt to the Internet's information whirlwind.
Terms of the sale announced Tuesday were not disclosed. Citing unnamed people privy to the negotiations, BusinessWeek pegged the acquisition price at $2 million to $5 million in cash. Bloomberg also would be responsible for paying other costs, such as severance pay to any of the roughly 400 BusinessWeek employees who might be laid off, the magazine's Web site reported.
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I always wondered if BusinessWeek and NewsWeek were related, they have the same white title font in a red box.
Overpriced at any price. A content-free, ad-lorn, white-knuckle-liberal, anti-business magazine. As such, a bucket with a hole in it.
Another pointless, late with news, throw away slick page magazine that isn’t worth $2, let alone $2 million.
Well, they both misspelled "weak".
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