According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ruport Murdoch may be about to snap up Vivisimo:
Clusty.com founder Raul Valdes-Perez has been notoriously resistant to money from outside investors, instead choosing to "bootstrap" or subsist on operating revenue generated by his young Squirrel Hill-based search engine firm, Vivisimo. But, now, billionaire media baron Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based News Corp., could be eyeing Clusty.com for a possible buy.
It's been widely reported that Mr. Murdoch is sniffing around smallish Internet operations with the intent to spend up to $2 billion gobbling them up. Mr. Murdoch's recent mention of Clusty to a Fortune Magazine reporter in October has yielded speculation that Clusty.com, often referred to as the search engine with the unfortunate name, could be on Mr. Murdoch's wish list.
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