AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
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AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
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Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
#2Will 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?
Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
#3Congrats 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. Sure the quality of TC isn't as great as it was in it's early days but it could a whole lot worse.
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#4I guess this is the one story on which Arrington doesn't mind getting scooped.
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#5Going out on a very frail limb here, but it seems to me that MA wants to build a (small, but "his") empire, not just make money. In that context it makes no sense for him to sell TechCrunch. That said, stranger things have happened...
Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
#6Will 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.
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#7"I moved my primary residence from Silicon Valley to Seattle"
Hmm, that's very specific wording there. In my world, filled with tax advisors and lawyers, this translates to "I'm trying to avoid paying California state income tax on capital gains I will accrue in the near future."
-- master's prediction http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1314487
Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
#8Arrington deserves a lucrative cash-out. He's put so much hard work into TC, and grown it into such a media force.
I'd hope AOL would keep it as a separate unit. But if not, and AOL changes it, it could be an opportunity to, uh, Disrupt Techcrunch as the market leader.
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#9Going out on a very frail limb here, but it seems to me that MA wants to build a (small, but "his") empire, not just make money. In that context it makes no sense for him to sell TechCrunch. That said, stranger things have happened...
Every business is for sale at the right price :)
Re: AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
#10Going out on a very frail limb here, but it seems to me that MA wants to build a (small, but "his") empire, not just make money. In that context it makes no sense for him to sell TechCrunch. That said, stranger things have happened...
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?