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If NBCU gets Weather.com, it propels itself into a Top 10 media property… From Alley Insider:

Google (GOOG) / 128 million unique visitors
Microsoft (MSFT) / 123 million
Yahoo (YHOO) / 116 million
Time Warner (TWX) / 108 million
News Corp. (NWS) / 79 million
eBay (EBAY) / 66 million
InterActiveCorp. (IACI) / 65 million
Wikimedia Foundation / 57 million
Amazon (AMZN) / 55 million
NBC Universal (GE) / 51.2 million (estimated unduplicated audience after Weather.com acquisition)
This is worth nothing, because this combo would incidentally be pushing New York Times (NYT) off the list. We’ve already noted how NYT is the largest newspaper company on the Web. This is not surprising - for a supposedly dying business, NYT seems to be doing a lot of cool and smart things online. The problem is, it’s not doing enough, and what it is doing, it is not doing fast enough. But at least it is doing something, which is more than some other firms in their peer group.

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