Dow Jones Buys VentureWire

The venture capital media space just shrunk further: Dow Jones has bought Technologic Partners, the parent company of VentureWire, the online VC news source. Technologic Partners is being combined with the newsletters group at Dow Jones Newswires, boosting its coverage of the private equity market. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Dick Shaffer, Technologic Partners founder and former editor at WSJ, returns to the fold. He will remain editor-in-chief of the VentureWire publications and events, and will head up new product development at Dow Jones Newsletters.

The acquisition follows VentureReporter’s acquisition by Wicks Business Information in April. Other VC news sources which closed recently include IPO.com, and the magazine Red Herring.

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