Comments on: Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica

By: Ars Technica Slammed in Condé Nast Digital Layoffs [Rumormonger] « All Hell Hollywood

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:16:53 +0000

[...] sad to see Ars so severely reduced. Not only for Condé, which not one year ago paid as much ($25 million+) for the site as it did for Wired.com, but also for the art of publishing online. Old-school print editors complain about at a certain [...]

By: GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - One Less Independent Blog In The World - Washington Post - SendMeRSS | Cep Telefoncunuz

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:45:47 +0000

[...] predict that this is just the beginning of the process that will accelerate over the next 12-18 months. Larger blogs lacking the stomach for competition will sell [...]

By: 2008 Year End Acquisitions Post » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

2008 Year End Acquisitions Post » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:38:00 +0000

[...] Technica is a technology blog. Press Release TechCrunch | [...]

By: How not to launch an online magazine « Slipr

How not to launch an online magazine « Slipr — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:55 +0000

[...] is why small sites that slowly bootstrap themselves up to success will almost always best their bigger brethren. (Big sites that create sub-brands can also succeed [...]

By: alanya

alanya — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:53:18 +0000

Hey
great post!

By: Alfabetic » Blog Archive » Guardian Media Group Adquiere Paid Content por USD$ 30 Millones

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:34:04 +0000

[...] poniendo un poco solitario aquí debido al emprendimiento de un blog independiente. En mayo Ars Technica fue escogida por Wired. Hoy Kara Swisher Y Marshall Kirkpatrick informan que ContentNextMedia la compañía principal [...]

By: MihanDownload

MihanDownload — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:50:37 +0000

Is this good? Ars is one of the few real tech news sites in the US.

By: Om Buys Another Blog « Dynamic Disruption

Om Buys Another Blog « Dynamic Disruption — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:29:03 +0000

[...] a time when other blogs such as Ars Technica and Paidcontent are selling themselves to larger media companies, Om is rolling up small blogs and [...]

By: CBS buying CNet, the content equation | Monday Note

CBS buying CNet, the content equation | Monday Note — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:10:22 +0000

[...] applies — in a much smaller but nevertheless interesting way — to the acquisition of ArsTechnica, an excellent tech news site, by Condé Nast, for a reported $25m. Again, Ars is cleverly crafted [...]

By: Tendo News · What I’ve learned from Twitter

Tendo News · What I’ve learned from Twitter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:55:57 +0000

[...] alerts. I learned about CBS buying Cnet and Condenet buying Ars Technica on Twitter long before I read about it on my blog [...]

By: GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - The Beginning Of The Blog Rollup?

GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - The Beginning Of The Blog Rollup? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:05:55 +0000

[...] that will accelerate over the next 12-18 months. larger blogs lacking the stomach for competition will sell to large media corporations. The more competitive large blogs who want to see this thing [...]

By: SAI raises funding, followed by more hacking around with blog valuations » VentureBeat

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:27:51 +0000

[...] million visitors a month, according to comScore, but may get more like 4.5 million, according to a TechCrunch report on the sale. If the latter number is true, then how can SAI be worth nearly half as much as Ars, [...]

By: Complete List of Q2 2008 Web / Internet / Tech Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:47:04 +0000

[...] Technica is a technology blog. Press Release TechCrunch | [...]

By: Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog : Blog Archive : Calacanis is out, and I know why.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:24:52 +0000

[...] Nast takes out Ars Technica. – May [...]

By: Startup Meme » Blog Archive » Paid Content gets Acquired by Guardian Media Group for $30 million

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:43 +0000

[...] this year we have witnessed the acquisition of Ars Technica, a much bigger but technology focused blog to Conde Nast for a reported $25 million. Prior to all [...]

By: Infotron » Blog Archive » Guardian Media Group Acquires Paid Content For $30 Million

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:38:57 +0000

[...] getting kind of lonely out here as an independent blogging startup. In May Ars Technica was picked up by Wired. Today Kara Swisher and Marshall Kirkpatrick report that blog network Paid Content’s parent [...]

By: Guardian Media Group Acquires Paid Content For $30 Million | All tech stuff

Guardian Media Group Acquires Paid Content For $30 Million | All tech stuff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:20:18 +0000

By: Guardian Media Group Acquires Paid Content For $30 Million

Guardian Media Group Acquires Paid Content For $30 Million — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:08:50 +0000

By: asiaman

asiaman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:24:07 +0000

I hope now they improve some of their functionality!

By: Celebrity Baby Blog is Acquired: People.com’s Gain Is FM Publishing’s Loss

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:28:17 +0000

[...] blog from its advertising network. Last year, it lost Digg to Microsoft, and earlier this month it lost Ars Technica to Condé Nast. Now, Time Inc. (my former employer) has snapped up Celebrity Baby [...]

By: Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web » Blog Archive » News of the Week 5/27/08

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:37:21 +0000

[...] Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica "This is also another lost customer for Federated Media Publishing, which sells advertising for Ars Technica (Digg left Federated Media last year to accept a very lucrative Microsoft deal that will pay out over $100 million over three years). CondéNet will now take over advertising sales." [...]

By: mojaam

mojaam — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:20:53 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see if they will change the digg button on every article to Reddit now.

By: May 19, 2008 | next media update

May 19, 2008 | next media update — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:41:34 +0000

[...] CondeNast Buys Tech News Site Ars Technica TECHCRUNCH Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica . The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet) . Wired Digital assets include Wired.com and Reddit (acquired in 2006). The acquisition price will not be disclosed, but our sources say it is in the $25 million range, which is what Condé Nast paid for Wired.com in 2006. ArsTechnica, based in Boston, was founded in 1998 by Ken Fisher, and the rather esoteric name is a Latin phrase, meaning the “Art of Technology”. It has been known for its serious yet edgy coverage of tech news and issues. Comscore says the total monthly pageviews is around 4 million. Source> [...]

By: rianjs.net » On the Condé Nast Ars Technica acquisition

rianjs.net » On the Condé Nast Ars Technica acquisition — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:24:00 +0000

[...] the blogosphere this week has been the acquisition of Ars Technica by Condé Nast. TechCrunch broke the story on Friday, but there was no official word from Ars until yesterday due to an embargo. Anyway, in [...]

By: Rian

Rian — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:05:07 +0000

Your numbers are low. Ars is getting ~40M pageviews with ~5M readers per month as outlined by Ken in his official announcement news post yesterday.