"Financial Times says it's met with several possible partners," writes the International Herald Tribune. Kinky! But even though they've recently admitted that they're looking for a partner (or perhaps a sugar daddy) it appears they're not ready to commit until they've finished playing the field.

We're talking to all sorts of people about different distribution channels," says Marjorie Scardino, CEO of Pearson, which owns the Financial Times. She declines to discuss any plans for head-to-head competition with a Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch, but says "it is impossible not to respect him as a newspaper man."

In response, a disgruntled Rupert Murdoch immediately went onto the Financial Times' Facebook page and wrote "Game ON!!!!" on their wall—a point he then emphasized with an angry emoticon—and then further retaliated by changing their friendship status to "You are corporate frenemies" and updating his personal status to "Crotchety."