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Newser.com Talks to Buy Salon.com Are Scuttled

Online publishing pioneer Salon.com was in talks with Michael Wolff’s aggregation site Newser.com, but the deal has fallen apart after the companies couldn’t agree on a price, the Times reports. The Huffington Post’s $315 million sale to AOL made Salon.com directors worried that they were settling for too little money — the Times doesn’t say how much that was. [NYT]

Newser.com Talks to Buy Salon.com Are Scuttled