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Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal
wiredmikey writes with the press-release version of news that we'll probably be updating as more details trickle down to the editors: "Dice Holdings (Owner of job sites including Dice.com) reported this morning that it has acquired Geeknet's online media business, including Slashdot and SourceForge. 'We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive," said Ken Langone, Chairman of Geeknet. 'With this transaction completed, we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek.' Dice Holdings acquired the business for $20 million in cash. In 2011, the online media properties generated $20 million in Revenues." The AP has a small piece with the news, too. Update: 09/18 16:16 GMT by T : Ars Technica has a story up as well.
Paid Micro$oft shills, all of ya! BOYCOTT!!!
And then you might have to actually employ some kind of dupe-checking process... ;)
And who the hell are you to define bias? This was the one place where we could come and post our general distrust of the filtering of the news that the MSM does on a second by second basis.
For instance, there are polls being conducted that show that Libertarian Gary Johnson could, in the most optimistic circumstances take over 20% of the vote on Nov 6th. But to allow his name to appear in the MSM is universally deemed to be a waste of precious time & bandwidth. He can't even get an invite to one of the so-called 'debates' which in reality are nothing more than the 2 top crooks of the 2 party system, each trying to make themselves the lessor of 2 evils.
There is NO Constitutional mandate for a 2 party system, but of all the election laws passed in the last 150 years, the intent is to protect TPTB.
For Gary to be polling at such high rates despite the lack of mention in the MSM, tells me that the general public, the sheeple if you will, are about to do 2 things, one being that because of the votes they'll "steal", Obama gets another term.
The second thing is that if the sheeple vote Nov 6th like they are saying now, that cannot be ignored, it will be a shot across the bow of the ship of state that cannot be ignored. If Gary doesn't win, and that is unlikely this Nov 6th, that 'shot across the bow' will at least steer the ship of state away from its present path of selling out to the highest bidder.
The worst part is that the protections of the Constitution, as amended, are only one more Obama appointed Justice away from just being an interesting footnote in the history of what was once the most respected Nation on the planet. Of the important cases before the court the last 3 years, the Constitution won by only one vote each time. That alone should scare the sheeple, but TPTB manufactured current economy means the sheeple have what they think are more important things to be afraid of.
At the moment, I can't muster up much in the way of Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)