NBC may buy Microsoft's MSNBC.com stake: Adweek

BANGALORE (Reuters) - NBCUniversal is in talks with technology group Microsoft to buy back MSNBC.com, Adweek reported, quoting sources.

Comcast?s NBCU unit is in talks to buy back Microsoft?s 50% stake in the Web news site??MSNBC.com,??Ad Week reports. The story reports that ?several sources with first-hand knowledge of the situation? say that talks between the two sides to the point where Comcast is conducing due diligence. As AdWeek notes, both the MSNBC cable channel ...

Comcast will take full control of NBCUniversal, two years after the cable TV operator bought a 51% interest in the media firm.Comcast Corp.

Comcast’s $16.7 billion deal to purchase the remaining half of NBCUniversal from General Electric solidifies the cable and broadband giant’s role as a media titan and represents a triumph for CEO Brian Roberts, whose father founded Comcast in 1963 by buying a 1,200-subscriber cable TV company in Tupelo, Miss. for $500,000. Since then, Comcast has steadily grown through acquisitions and savvy business deals. It is now the largest cable company in the United States, and one of the largest providers of broadband Internet and home phone service.