News Corp. expands Web grasp
8th Sep 2005, 21:10 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. said on Thursday it would buy IGN Entertainment Inc., a Web network for video game fans, for about $650 million as part of a rapid-fire strategy to expand its online entertainment and media.
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