[I find it rather disturbing that they rave about this.]
Record Numbers Turn to Msnbc.com for Coverage of Virginia Tech Tragedy
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| On Monday, overall traffic hit an all-time high, with 15.3 million
| unique users, a 37 percent increase over the site's all-tim
| one-day record set during the coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
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| [...]
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| Based in Redmond, WA, msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC
| Universal.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/070417/117582.html
This is very tactless, if not altogether insane. Fine, Microsoft/NBC, so you
are cashing in on people's death.
Related:
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Gates sold 100,000 Univision shares-SEC filing
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| The foundation said it sold its remaining stake in Univision,
| which is in the process of being acquired by private investors,
| for an average of $35.34 per share in open market transactions.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsmlreuters.com:20070105:MTFH49951_2007-01-05_22-11-13_N05298823&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yll88p
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