Update: Six Apart Purchase Of Live Journal, WebProNews, 5 Jan 2005

“Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad and publishing platform Movable Type, is about to acquire Live Journal for an undisclosed amount…If the deal goes through later this month, then Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million users. It also gives the company a very good fighting chance against Google's Blogger and Microsoft's MSN Spaces.�

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