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Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million

(Posted on  BoomTown  2 months ago)

In what will be yet another new media coup, sources tell BoomTown that Britain's Guardian Media Group will announce this morning that it will buy the digital media news site paidContent for a price "north of $30 million." (visit source article)
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