NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) -- NBC and Microsoft once explored making a joint bid for New York-based Dow Jones but abandoned it, leaving Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid unchallenged.

NEW YORK, June 7 (UPI) -- The man who led an investor group in buying the Philadelphia Inquirer last year says he would like to examine the Dow Jones situation.

NEW YORK, May 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. owners of Dow Jones say they will meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to discuss its $5 billion bid for the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- The Wall Street Journal's publisher said Monday U.S. investigators were looking into stock options trading before Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion takeover bid.

NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. media conglomerate News Corp. made an unsolicited offer to buy Dow Jones & Co. for $60 a share or $5 billion, the publishing company said Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The New York Stock Exchange soared Wednesday in a rally that threatened the exchange's record high. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 74.69 or 0.65 percent to 11,615.60 in mid-morning trading. The average's record was set Jan. 14, 2000, when the Dow

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Dow Jones & Co. Tuesday named Richard F. Zannino, the publishing company's chief operating officer, as its new chief executive, effective Feb. 1.

NEW YORK, June 28 (UPI) -- Dow Jones Newswires, a division of Dow Jones & Co. of New York, said Monday it will become the owner of all of Oster Dow Jones of New York.

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A Beijing court has ordered Dow Jones to pay $49,000 to a Chinese calligrapher after the company turned a piece of his work, given as a gift, into their logo.