Dow Jones & Company
American company
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cofounding by Dow
- In Charles Henry Dow
…an American journalist who cofounded Dow Jones & Company, a financial news service, and The Wall Street Journal. His original contributions include the compilation in 1884 of the first average of selected U.S. stock prices that, with some modification, developed into what are known as the Dow Jones averages.
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purchase by Murdoch
- In Rupert Murdoch: 20th Century Fox, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal
…the News Corporation was acquiring Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for \$5 billion. Myspace suffered declining membership with the rise of rival social networking site Facebook, and News Corporation sold the site in 2011 for \$35 million, hundreds of millions of dollars less than its…
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