Microsoft nbc news

• The breakup announced late Sunday dissolves the final shreds of a 16-year marriage between Microsoft Corp. and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast Corp. The relationship began to unwind in 2005 when Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBCs cable TV channel to NBC.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• the president of NBC News. That's because the company that controls NBC, Comcast, is acquiring Microsoft's 50 percent stake in the joint venture that brought MSNBC.
(New York Times)
• According the New York Times, Microsoft is receiving roughly $300 million as part of this separation. Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, said that with the change, "we will fully own our digital businesses." NBCNews.
(Forbes)
• REDMOND, Wash. — NBC News has acquired full control of msnbc.com and its digital network from Microsoft Corp. and is immediately rebranding the site as NBCNews.com. Many details of the arrangement remain to be worked out, and financial terms werent disclosed.
(msnbc.com)
• The breakup announced late Sunday dissolves the final shreds of a 16-year marriage between Microsoft Corp. and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast Corp.
(DAILY KOS)
• brand alignment between the TV properties and their Web counterparts — NBC News and NBCNews.com, MSNBC cable and msnbc.com and TODAY show and TODAY.com. Microsoft will receive roughly $300 million for the stake, according to the New York Times.
(Politico.com)
• SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Software giant Microsoft has parted company with NBC News, pulling out of their joint venture MSNBC to launch its own online news service, NBC News announced on Sunday.
(Straits Times)
• Confusing things further, of course, theres NBC News, which is NBCs news operation and its employees will move out of Microsofts Redmond, WA. campus.
(YAHOO!)
• News of the revived talks was reported earlier by The MSNBC.com Renamed to NBCNews.com as Microsoft and NBC Divorce MSNBC.com has become NBCNews.
(New York Times)
• LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC News is negotiating to buy Microsofts portion of MSNBC.com, potentially severing a joint venture that begin nearly 17 years ago.
(Huffington Post)