MSN Traffic Grew Faster Than Rivals

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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said traffic to its MSN family of Web sites grew faster than its main rivals, and said it was talking to content partners about possible future premium subscription services. Microsoft saw traffic to its main MSN.com portal grow by 6 percent in January, while that to Yahoo! Inc. grew 5 percent and that to AOL Time Warner Inc.'s AOL portal grew 4 percent, the company said, citing data from Web usage tracking firm Jupiter Media Metrix.