Murdoch's acquisition of Dow Jones & Company Adds odds.

<P>: Http://finance. News, General Electric (General Electric Co.) And Pearson (Pearson PLC) to give the joint bid for Dow Jones & Company (Dow Jones) decision to help Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch .) to achieve the acquisition of this "Wall Street Journal" (The Wall Street Journal) Publisher's wishes, and the future strategy of the other three companies were put a question mark. .</ P> <P> Qiongsi Pei Tao News Corporation acquired the company must now decide its students, "Financial Times" (Financial Times) the best direction, the company is considering with General Electric's CNBC TV channels merged to form a new .Group. .Pearson has long been a shareholder urged the company to sell FT Group (including papers in France and Germany, and the "Economist" magazine (Economist) 50% of the shares) rather than put more money into this and Pearson .core educational publishing business is not consistent with the department. .</ P> <P> Pearson has been at the FT Group over the side: • Chief Executive Marjorie Scardino (Marjorie Scardino) to say, in order to sell the newspaper, "unless I die." .However, there has been a recent softening of her position. .But now, Pearson is ready to let the world know that at least part of the sale of the Group's business or embarrassing situations. .With the integration of the media industry, especially if Murdoch's News Corporation (News Corp.) Acquisition of Dow Jones, Pearson's FT's departments will face some competition in the business community with its readers and advertisers a more powerful opponent. .News Corp. said it would strengthen the "Wall Street Journal" in Europe and Asia. .As more media companies began to comprehensive utilization of television, Internet and newspapers and other means of communication, Pearson may find its way into some of the platform is running out. .</ P> <P> to informed sources, General Electric and Pearson are discussing the FT to the outside of the U.S. TV channel CNBC and website content matters. .CNBC television in the United States and the "Wall Street Journal" has a similar agreement. .</ P> <P> insider said bid price is too high for the Dow Jones negotiations deadlocked, News Corporation's $ 60 per share offer, worth 5.0 billion. .They also said the talks only tentative. .FT and CNBC both sides plan to set up a small number of people stripped holding company, and Dow Jones. .</ P> <P> on the Dow Jones company, General Electric and Pearson as a potential bidder for the withdrawal reduced the bargaining with Murdoch. .Over the past two weeks, the negotiations centered around the Bancroft family (Bancroft) held. .The family owned a majority of Dow Jones voting rights, hoping to maintain its editorial independence. .But Wednesday, the family will be bargaining over the Dow Jones board of directors. .This allows the Board to discuss the freedom and the price News Corp., Dow Jones, News Corp. also hopes to improve the purchase price. .On Thursday, a Board Committee and its advisers to discuss the relevant editorial issues. .According to informed sources, the Dow Jones board of directors hopes to be next Monday the formation of a proposal submitted to the News Corporation. .</ P> <P> while General Electric, its most profitable assets of CNBC television is likely to face the fall launch of Fox News Corp. (Fox) the challenges of commercial channels. .The latter will benefit from the Dow Jones content. ."Wall Street Journal," There has signed an agreement to provide content to CNBC, which expires in 2012. .It is understood that those who said CNBC, Fox's launch will not feel too nervous to CNBC: Fox's cable channels into the 3,000 million households, while CNBC is 9,200 million households. .However, the Fox News Channel has gone from unknown junior rapid rise in audience and advertising revenue than the Time Warner (Time Warner Inc.) Cable News Network (CNN). .</ P> <P> to informed sources, CNBC has recently been detected, "Financial Times" reporter and content. .The source said that once the News Corp. acquisition of Dow Jones, CNBC's management is expected to consult with Murdoch, with the current agreement with Dow Jones as a bargaining chip. .Since News Corp. and General Electric's NBC Universal are in the world with television and film assets, both large room for bargaining. .</ P> <P> CNBC spokesman had no comment. .</ P> <P> General Electric has been carefully positioned itself as a participant wish to observe the existence of efficient economic structure. .The company said in a news group plans a threat to its business channel, will not, and stressed that their main interest is the Dow Jones's digital platform. .General Electric is also expanding aggressively in this area. .</ P> <P> </ P>.