{"id":140761,"date":"2010-01-05T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/msnbc_announced_this_morning_that.php"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:17:00","slug":"msnbc-buys-breakingnews-com-to-go-with-with-breakingnews-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/140761","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Buys BreakingNews.com to Go With With @breakingnews [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"breakingnews_0110.JPG\"Correction<\/strong>: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that BreakingNews.com was opperated by the same people who started the @breakingnews Twitter account.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

MSNBC announced this morning<\/a> that it is buying the BreakingNews.com<\/a> URL from a company called PV Media Group. This follows November’s purchase<\/a> of @breakingnews<\/a> and its 1.4 million followers. The two companies were not connected before MSNBC’s acquisitions of their various projects.<\/p>\n

When we profiled @breakingnews founder Michael van Poppel<\/a> in July, the company was just about to release its iPhone app<\/a> and had over 800,000 followers on Twitter. That number is now over 1.5 million.<\/p>\n

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“Not everyone wants news surrounded by commentary or features,” said Charlie Tillinghast, president of the MSNBC Digital Network in the company’s press release about today’s purchase.<\/p>\n

MSNBC Spokesperson Gina Stikes told us in an email that “Msnbc has acquired the URL only.” She did not disclose any further details, such as the purchase price.<\/p>\n

For more background about BreakingNews.com, see today’s coverage at DomainNameWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that BreakingNews.com was opperated by the same people who started the @breakingnews Twitter account. MSNBC announced this morning that it is buying the BreakingNews.com URL from a company called PV Media Group. This follows November’s purchase of @breakingnews and its 1.4 million followers. The two companies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}