Msnbc.com becomes NBCNews.com

nbc ^ | 7/15/2012 | M. Alex Johnson

[tobyhill]

REDMOND, Wash. — NBC News has acquired full control of msnbc.com and its digital network from Microsoft Corp. and is immediately rebranding the site as NBCNews.com.

Many details of the arrangement remain to be worked out, and financial terms weren't disclosed.

But NBC News President Steve Capus said the site — one of the news industry's earliest and most successful online operations — would become part of NBC News Digital, a new division led by Vivian Schiller, the former president and chief executive of National Public Radio. Schiller joined NBC News as chief digital officer last year.

[Terpfen]

Steve Ballmer is doing far more damage to the Microsoft brand than anything Rachel Maddow can muster.

[zeugma]

Yes...MSFT has complained for months that it is compelled to display MSNBC 'news' articles on its MSN portal, and they had moved to the far left, and trashing the entire deal was the only way to end it.

Kinda suprisinbg given all the radical left wing policies the bigwigs of microsoft have supported for years. Cool though. Anything to pull the oxygen away from NBC