Nothing quite interesting on the networks, getting tired about the recession and Madoff along with each and everything Mr. President does(from his choice of soft drink to the blackberry, etc.)and how ahrder life is getting, blahhhh....blah...bla. As expected, the guys finally announced their re-launch of some of their blogs(if not all), Splashpress has announced again and … [Read more...]
Giga Omni Acquires TheAppleBlog
Giga Omni Media network has just acquired TheAppleBlog, as reported by Om Malik himself on the GigaOm blog. Started in 2004, TheAppleBlog is now the seventh member of GigaOm's blog roster. Quoting Om Malik: I had always wanted to start an Apple-related blog — one that was more analytical, did more in-depth reviews and at the same time focused on helping the new switchers to … [Read more...]
Technorati Acquires Blog Network
Our sister site The Blog Herald reports that Technorati has just purchased Blogcritics.org, a diverse blog network and "an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe." The Blog Herald writes: Blogcritics publishes submissions from bloggers within their own specialty. With over 70k articles and 2k contributors, the site receives approximately 1 … [Read more...]
GigaOm Network Buys Mobile Gadgets Blog
Om Malik's GigaOm network has acquired jkOnTheRun, a blog on mobile gadgets. jkOnTheRun becomes the sixth blog in the network. In his announcement, the network's founder and senior writer explains their choice of blog to acquire: Strategically, it’s a publication that rounds out our existing areas of coverage. For instance, GigaOM tracks the world of web infrastructure p … [Read more...]
Splashpress Buys, Relaunches CSS Star
On-the-rise blog network Splashpress Media has just acquired and revamped the popular CSS Star website, as announced on the outfit's blog: CSS Star is a free gallery of well-designed websites. The main driving force behind CSS Star is to highlight the best sites, ideas or designs made respecting quality standards. The editors behind CSS Star regularly pick a website that … [Read more...]
b5media, Technorati Merger Falls Through
Secret merger talks between blog network giant b5media and Technorati fizzled out recently, TechCrunch reports: Blog search engine Technorati was days away from merging with blog network b5media when the whole deal blew up earlier this week, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The talks with Toronto-based b5media (they’re big in Canada) indicate that it is … [Read more...]
Splashpress Media’s DevLounge & Wisdump Tie Up
Two of Splashpress Media's prime properties, DevLounge and Wisdump will fuse their energies together -- without leaving each other's domains. SP Media veteran Thord Daniel Hedengren has taken over the reins at both sites, and the Splashpress official site has this to say: What made Thord’s plans especially exciting with the takeover of DevLounge was how he wanted to tie up D … [Read more...]