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MSNBC.com buys startup that lets users decide what’s news

October 8, 2007/

Two Seattle-based pioneers in the delivery of news on the Internet are teaming up.

MSNBC.com, the joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, is purchasing Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com , a startup that enlists "citizen" journalists to post and comment on mainstream media stories, and write articles of their own.

By Benjamin J. Romano

Seattle Times technology reporter

Full Story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003932614_btmsnbc08.html

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