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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.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Lmfao how is there still "yahoo"

capitalism is so braindead

imagine thinking any of this was real

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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...

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

people still widely use stuff like yahoo finance

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

it's what my finance prof recommended 🤷

[–] melp@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm told Thailand loves it?

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Surprised it wasn't Conde Nast

It does not make me feel good that legit half of tech outlets are owned by one company.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

These companies still exist?