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Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Will they just integrate it with Engadget or how will that work out? Keep both separate but competing? Like the way Kellogg's has their divisions competing against each other like Rice Crispies vs. Mini-Wheats?

They're profoundly different blogs, don't think they're candidates for a merge at all.

Crunchgear is basically the same as Engadget. And yes I agree they differ, but they have a fair amount of overlap.

Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Every business is for sale at the right price :)

Dubious. I imagine you could give Steve Jobs $100 trillion and he still wouldn't sell Apple. What would he do with his life? Buy Apple back?

Selling Apple isn't up to (just) Steve Jobs. That's not how public companies work.

Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're profoundly different blogs, don't think they're candidates for a merge at all.

Crunchgear is basically the same as Engadget. And yes I agree they differ, but they have a fair amount of overlap.

I agree with both of you. To borrow your analogy, they're like Rice Crispies and Mini-Wheats. Depending on your point of view, they're the same (wheat products consumed for breakfast with milk) or different (a frosted cereal in big chunks, versus a puffed rice kernel that snaps and crackles).

Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Congrats to MA & crew if it's true. Regardless of whether people care for his style of writing or what TechCrunch has become (I don't mind most of it), it warms me up to see people who bust their asses get rewarded handsomely (assuming the payoff will be good.) I just hope AOL won't kill it by injecting content from random Seed.com writers, similar to the way Demand Media turned eHow and LiveStrong into content beds.…

IMO, the quality of MG Siegler's writing is barely a step up from content farms.

Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every business is for sale at the right price :)

Dubious. I imagine you could give Steve Jobs $100 trillion and he still wouldn't sell Apple. What would he do with his life? Buy Apple back?

Why does a price have to be monetary in nature? I'm sure that, were it entirely up to Steve, there is something that would make him sell Apple.

Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crunchgear is basically the same as Engadget. And yes I agree they differ, but they have a fair amount of overlap.

I agree with both of you. To borrow your analogy, they're like Rice Crispies and Mini-Wheats. Depending on your point of view, they're the same (wheat products consumed for breakfast with milk) or different (a frosted cereal in big chunks, versus a puffed rice kernel that snaps and crackles).

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