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Washington Post Buys Slate From Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-easy-and-it's-required dept.

securitas writes "The Washington Post has bought online magazine Slate from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum believed to be in the millions of dollars. The sale comes almost five months after Microsoft put Slate on the block (Slashdot) in late July. If you're looking for a perspective from someone other than Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz writes about the sale: 'According to ComScore Media Metrix, washingtonpost.com drew 4.5 million unique visitors last month, while Slate drew 4.8 million.' David Carr reports in the New York Times that Neilsen NetRatings recorded 6 million Slate visitors last month. Either way, Slate's audience is larger than the Post's online edition. You can learn more about the deal from AP via IHT or get streaming audio at NPR (Real|Windows Media)."

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  1. Re:Old by FriedTurkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is actually a VisualCobol. I had to program it in college. COBOL should not be able to render windows!!! I guess the idea was people could take legacy COBOL and put in a Windows world. Too bad you really had to rewrite it anyway and most companies use screen scraping.

  2. Re:If you want a discussion not biased by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    People, get serious. Why is parent moded as troll for pointing out really dumb stuff? Slashdot editors should know better.

    Much better.