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Daily Archives: August 5th, 2013

Jeff Bezos agrees to buy The Washington Post and its other D.C. area papers for $250 million

Excerpt: Wow. Did­n’t see this com­ing: The Wash­ing­ton Post Com­pa­ny (NYSE: WPO) announced today that it has signed a con­tract to sell its news­pa­per pub­lish­ing busi­ness­es, includ­ing The Wash­ing­ton Post news­pa­per, to Jef­frey P. Bezos. The pur­chas­er is an enti­ty that belongs to Mr. Bezos in his indi­vid­ual capac­i­ty and is not Amazon.com, Inc. “Every­one at the Post Com­pa­ny and […]
Published at:4:22 PM on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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