It is used for acquiring, managing and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications.

Cowles eventually acquired other newspapers, radio stations and television stations, but almost all of them were sold to other companies by 1985.

In the late 1990s, he began setting up private companies so that he could continue acquiring small newspapers.

Like Frank Gannett before him, Miller followed a strategy of acquiring newspapers in cities and situations where the company would face minimal competition.

The money was used to acquire newspapers, leading to the formation of the Scripps-Howard organization.

Capital has been aggressively acquiring weekly newspapers in the Boston area.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he acquired weekly newspapers, specialty publications and shoppers in adjacent communities, some 20 in all.

Last week, Mr. Murdoch told a Congressional hearing that he had no plans to acquire additional stations or newspapers.

Over the years, Paddock, and later his son Stuart, acquired several other weekly newspapers in the northern Chicago suburbs.

He acquired newspapers aggressively in this country over the past decade but has been under mounting financial pressure.