According to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, Google is in the final stages of acquiring RSS publisher FeedBurner for a rumored $100 million. Feedburner is one of the most popular RSS publishing tools on the web, particularly in the blogging world (as a matter of fact, this blog’s feeds are handled by Feedburner).

In addition to bloggers, FeedBurner also publishes the feeds from a number of enterprise companies like Reuters, Newsweek and AOL. Currently, Feedburner claims to be handling over 720,000 feeds from over 420,000 publishers.

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Earlier today Yahoo launched Pipes, a new service designed to make the process of gathering and mashing up RSS feeds a little bit easier. Although somewhat nerdy and technical, Yahoo Pipes makes it reasonably easy to take multiple feeds and combine them to create unique ways of aggregate data.

The site has been up and down intermittently this morning probably do to the massive amount of traffic it’s receiving at the moment. Once Yahoo solves the technical issues I expect Pipes to be popular with RSS aficionados, though it may be a bit complicated for RSS beginners.

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News junkies rejoice, there’s some new feeds to add to your readers. We told you this would be year RSS went mainstream, and as further evidence, the Old Media giant The Wall Street Journal has added some more RSS feeds, including one for each section in the print edition of the paper.

Of course just to prove that, while they may start to understand RSS, they still don’t understand the web, the WSJ’s new feeds, like so much of the site, are only available to subscribers.

Found via Micro Persuasion.