TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an announcement on Friday.

Regent is the same company that snapped up Foundry, the firm behind outlets like PCWorldMacworld, and TechAdvisor on Thursday. Founded in 2005, TechCrunchhas experienced many shakeups in ownership after AOL acquired the site in 2010.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    Oh good private equity. Well, any profits will be funneled out of tech crunch into their pockets, expect nothing new out of it, layoffs and cost cutting.

    Even more if it was a leveraged buyout.

    Techcrunch is officially dead folks.

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      Yahoo was owned by Verizon up until 2021, so it shouldn’t too surprising it’s still around.

      You might be surprised to learn that people still pay AOL (which was also part of the Verizon purchase/sale) and is part of Yahoo…

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        Just because the imaginary friends are passing fiat around to each other doesn’t make any of it less delusional. You may as well learn such trivia about Magic the Gathering or the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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            Your handle leads me to believe “Magic the Gathering” or “The Catechism” struck a nerve but search me which… or both?

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              It didn’t strike a nerve at all. It just seems to me you’re being kind of rude and dismissive to somebody who’s just telling you how things currently are. For instance, I think crypto is a complete fucking waste of time and resources. But if somebody explains why people value it I don’t call the person expounding on the topic delusional

              Like your catechism dig. Religious studies is a very important field regardless of whether or not somebody believes in that religion. So knowing about the catechism isn’t useless trivia. That’s a really shitty way to describe someone’s academic pursuit.

              You need to think beyond your personal hatred of people who believe these things

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                Yeah I’m dismissive of it because cultural hegemony matters and that culture is really trashy and founded on delusion. I didn’t ask for commentary. I was trashing fiat culture.