Mediagazer: Newspaper Consortium Seeks to Sell Cars.com for $3 Billion (Wall Street Journal)

8:35 AM ET, March 10, 2014

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Newspaper Consortium Seeks to Sell Cars.com for $3 Billion — Online Marketplace is Jointly Owned by Gannett, Tribune, McClatchy and Other Publishers — A group of newspaper publishers has put the cars.com online marketplace up for sale for as much as $3 billion, hoping to cash …

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