Industries are banding together in buying and selling consortiums, while Internet start-ups like FreeMarkets, EDS CoNext and Ventro are running online buying services for all kinds of goods.
1997 Virgin Radio sold to consortium led by Chris Evans in £85m deal.
Harrison-Allan regained control before selling to the consortium on Friday.
The consortium envisions selling these versions of their publications through an online store akin to iTunes from Apple.
On November 22nd De Beers, the diamond giant that has owned the mine since 1930, said it was selling it to a consortium led by Petra Diamonds, one of South Africa's emerging diamond producers, for 1 billion rand ($147m) in cash.
Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP and chair of the Commons public accounts committee (PAC), criticised the BBC for "selling knowingly to a consortium that deliberately sets up a very, very complex structure … the purpose of which is to avoid tax".
Some of the hedge funds that bought the papers' parent company out of bankruptcy in 2010 are now considering selling out to a consortium of investors organized by Edward G. Rendell, one of the most powerful politicians in the modern history of Pennsylvania.
Yahoo! argues that although the advertisers might use both platforms, the automated system does not compete directly with newspaper publishers selling ads through the consortium.
The village has now been sold to a consortium led by Qatar's royal family.
The company was subsequently sold to a consortium of investors in 1996.
