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News Corp. Confirms Sale of IGN

February 4, 2013 at 10:08 am PT

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News Corp. has sold off IGN, its games-and-dudes site, to J2 Global’s Ziff Davis. The price was undisclosed, but, as AllThingsD reported last week, it would be a fraction of the $650 million News Corp. paid for the property in 2005. News Corp. also owns AllThingsD.

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The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.

— Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”