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IDG, owner of PCWorld, Macworld, and IDC, to be acquired by Blackstone for $1.3B

Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @chrisbrandrick , @threatresearch , and @jsnell See also Mediagazer Tweets: @chrisbrandrick : This serves as a good reminder for me to actually go and backup/archive my work (what's worth saving) from PCWorld, Macworld, and TechHive from years gone by. https://twitter.com/... Accountability Brandt / @threatresearch : Unlike the tech industry, tech journalists don't typically have equity in their company, so while this made the publisher and some people very rich, the journos upon whose work the value of these brands is dependent probably didn't get squat out of this deal. https://t.co/Ge5MNT6X8C Jason Snell / @jsnell : As one of the people who was involved in creating @TechHive, it's fun to see it referred to as one of IDG's “many media brands”... https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer

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  • @threatresearch Accountability Brandt on x
    Unlike the tech industry, tech journalists don't typically have equity in their company, so while this made the publisher and some people very rich, the journos upon whose work the value of these brands is dependent probably didn't get squat out of this deal. https://t.co/Ge5MNT6…
  • @chrisbrandrick @chrisbrandrick on x
    This serves as a good reminder for me to actually go and backup/archive my work (what's worth saving) from PCWorld, Macworld, and TechHive from years gone by. https://twitter.com/...
  • @jsnell Jason Snell on x
    As one of the people who was involved in creating @TechHive, it's fun to see it referred to as one of IDG's “many media brands”... https://twitter.com/...