PaidContent’s Rafat Ali reports that America Online is buying Weblogs Inc., the weblog company behind brand name uber blogs like Engadget and The Auto Blog. The terms of the deal have not been announced as yet. If this is really happening, I guess Jason and I work for the same master – Time Warner. Nice scoop, Mr. Ali.
What is Ning?
Jim Bumgardner explains why Marc Andreesen’s latest project, Ning, could be a big a Web 2.0 deal:…
[...] I noticed tonight that Weblogs, Inc. got bought by AOL. If you don’t know, Weblogs is the company behind Engadget and other blogs that basically post regurgitated press releases and content from other ‘lesser’ blogs as roughly 99% of their content. That said, when I tried to get to engadget to show someone, I got the following instead. [...]
X buys Y
Lots of acquisitions this week (so far).
My cynical side says Bubble 2. Charlie Wood just can’t…
[...] AOL property! by Scott | posted in Asides Trackback URL | Comment RSS Feed Tag at del.icio.us | Incoming links tagged as blog, blogging, blogosphere, aol,americaonline [...]
[...] Is AOL buying Weblogs, Inc.? Scary to think that Engadget could ultimately be an AOL property! [...]
Weblogs Purchase Confusion
Just remember, don’t confuse AOL buying Weblogs, Inc. with Verisign buying weblogs.com. XX(
[...] PaidContent’s Rafat Ali reports that America Online is buying Jason Calacanis’s Weblogs Inc. And now Om Malik is reporting it as well. Rafat also reported that Calacanis refused to comment on the story. [...]
WTF ?, they just make 1 million or so per year depends heavily on natural search engine ranking for traffic and they are acquired for a 30 something multiple?.
And if google buy’s AOL…
it comes a full circle
Om: Me and you: let’s team up and start a new Daily Deal :)
is gawker media depressed?
You guys are killing me… amazing news if true.
Weblogs kills Gawker Media in my book, but pwnd by AOL? WOW!
Google declares war on Microsoft
INTERNET search engine Google has declared war on Microsoft, announcing plans to launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online.
Google has joined forces with US-based technology giant Sun Microsystems to allow web users to access Sun’s OpenOffice from any personal computer.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16826120%255E3122,00.html
rafat, only if i could be half as good as you. dude you are steady in the scoop..
im going to start a blog and be the first to write about an om and rafat merger
now maybe news corp might buy gawker
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/10/05/gawker-media-in-sales-talks/
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