Extremely disappointing. Siemens has no business owning or purchasing these sites. Shame on Supplyframe.
It actually makes alot of sense, Siemens and supplyframe will tremendously benefit from this!
Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
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Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#12Extremely disappointing. Siemens has no business owning or purchasing these sites. Shame on Supplyframe.
What are your reasons to assume that Siemens would mismanage these sites?
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#14I hope hackaday manages to stay around. They're the only blog I know which has maintained a high quality though all of these years and through many different owners.
Which can be claimed for their content but not for their UI
Don't mess with the UI please. It's simple like it should be.
Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#15Extremely disappointing. Siemens has no business owning or purchasing these sites. Shame on Supplyframe.
What are your reasons to assume that Siemens would mismanage these sites?
It's one of these typical German conglomerates that absolutely doesn't understand consumer and consumer products. I don't know if it will mismanage Hackaday. They literally only have to keep it as is. But if they don't(mismanage) I'll be positively surprised.
Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#16Huge fan of Hackaday so I'm really not with this acquisition but if you offer me 700,000,000 for my blog I'd sell it too. I wish them the best of luck.
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#17That's all very unfortunate. Having worked with German behemoth companies before I can't think of any positive outcomes.
Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#18I wounder why? $0.7B for a blog, and a wordpress shop? Cheap money make "miracles" these days.
I think they are buying because of the audience.
Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#19I hope hackaday manages to stay around. They're the only blog I know which has maintained a high quality though all of these years and through many different owners.
Yeah, it's a truly useful resource. They showcase so many cool projects it inspired me to get into hardware hacking.
Re: Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie
#20"for USD 0.7 billion. The transaction unlocks significant value for customers of Supplyframe and Siemens, providing seamless and quick access to both Siemens’ offerings and Supplyframe’s marketplace intelligence. [...]The acquisition also strengthens the Siemens portfolio through Software as a Service (SaaS) " Software as Service appears to be the ultimate goal.
It is not not uncommon for enterprise focused and traditionally hardware-strong businesses to try to pivot into SaaS as a way to bolster their revenue.