Boston - Social networking service Gather.com announced on Tuesday that Kevin McClatchy, CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates major league baseball team and a director at The McClatchy Co., the third largest newspaper company in the U.S., has acquired a minority stake in the company.

McLean, Va. - Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has purchased a 4% stake in online job site CareerBuilder, which is currently jointly owned by three newspaper publishers.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo announced on Monday that it has expanded its partnership with 12 newspaper companies, and will now provide search and advertising technology across all 264 newspaper sites, as well as share local news stories.

The WSJ is reporting that McClatchy, the publisher of 30 newspapers, is set to be the 12th newspaper publisher to join the Yahoo consortium, leaving behind Gannett and Tribune, which had hoped to work with McClatchy to build an alternative national ad network.

Washington - Yahoo's news division announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with The McClatchy Company to offer international news coverage from McClatchy foreign correspondents based in Iraq, the Middle East, China and Latin America. The "Trusted Voices" project, set to launch early in the second quarter, will include both traditional news stories and exclusive blog reports on Yahoo News.

McLean, Va. - Hoping to fight declining circulation and revenue, three major newspaper publishers, Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, plan to jointly begin selling display ads for their Internet sites, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.