NBC, Microsoft Considered Dow Jones Bid

NBC, Microsoft Considered Dow Jones Bid

General Electric's NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said yesterday.

No rival has yet stepped up to compete with Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft and NBC were partners in forming the MSNBC cable television network.

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