Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines?

Mary Hodder reports Ask Jeeves is buying Bloglines and Mark Fletcher will be a Jeeves employee on Monday. Is this true?

Mark Fletcher is presenting a 20-minute case study this Tuesday on Really Simple Syndication (RSS) syndication, ad splicing, and blogging at the Media Center event. Perhaps the announcement is meant to coincide with the conference and Mark will use this time to talk about the new Bloglines.

Update: Bloglines acquisition is official. Supposedly announced on Friday with an embargo of midnight tonight.