Stack Overflow, which has 100M+ monthly visitors, says it will be acquired by Prosus, a European tech giant and Tencent's largest shareholder, for $1.8B
and also mints 61 new millionaires. Joel Spolsky / @spolsky : New blog post: Kinda a big announcement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ ... Jack Forge / @thejackforge : For those that didn't know that S...
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB gets valuable intel...
Amazon's Twitch has acquired social networking platform Bebo, source says for $25M, to bolster its esports business
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...
Gawker.com announces it will shut down next week, after nearly 14 years of operation
Or was it Nick Denton? Hulk Hogan? Peter Thiel? New York Times : Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: Ride-Hailing News Owns the Road Will Oremus / Slate : Who's Left to Embarrass Silicon Valley Now Th...