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Weblogs Acquired by VeriSign, Inc.

VeriSign Inc., a well-known Internet services provider, recently announced that it has purchased Weblogs. Verisign says that now that it has Weblogs services it will use the service to offer more stable and reliable communications for online personal journals or blogs.

Weblogs provides alerts when blogs and other Web sites are updated with new material. VeriSign has paid $2.3 million in cash to Scripting News Inc. to acquire Berkeley-based Weblogs. Web log pioneer Dave Winer first introduced the service through Weblogs.

VeriSign will continue to operate Weblog, which supports thousands of daily feeds from bloggers and other publishers as a free service. However, a VeriSign spokesman says that the company could charge for additional services at some point.