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LinuxToday Acquired By Internet.com

Posted by Hemos on from the dealing-with-the-world dept.

debrain writes "Looks like LinuxToday was acquired by internet.com. " No numbers were specified - LinuxToday will be joining Internet.com's LinuxPlanet.

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  1. See their corporate page by jflynn · · Score: 3
    According to the internet.com site, they already did in June 1999, symbol INTM.

    It also mentions that they are 20% of Mecklermedia, which was acquired by Penton Media in Nov. '98. Anyone know anything about those corporations?

    The copyright notice at the bottom seems to me (IANAL) to gobble up all rights to posted comments as well, but that may be typical of sites other than Slashdot.

    And of course, Microsoft is listed as a major sponsor. But that probably applies to over half the web as well.

    I'd like to hear confirmation from LT and their slant on this.

  2. internet.com history by ajs · · Score: 4

    Interesting. I used to have a lot of friends who worked for "The Internet Company, Inc." which was internet.com before they failed and sold the domain off.

    This was always one of the scarriest things to me. How can a company that owns internet.com fail?! All you have to do is put a credit-card submission form on your home page with a "give us a dollar and get your name on our site" or whatever. Remember, if you just type "internet" into most browsers, you end up at internet.com. How many newbies do you think do this? The answer, as I recall, was lots.

    Ah well, leave it to a startup to not see what they've got.