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CNet.com
Was buying this popular tech news and reviews site a good deal at $1.8 billion? |
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Associated Press just reported: "CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash."
PaidContent has assembled links to about a dozen of its stories that serve as background to this move. More from Poynter's Jim Romenesko.
Meanwhile, PR/media blogger Steve Rubel notes, "The ...merger is interesting. But why not buy a bunch of big tech blogs for half the price?" Good question!
...Incidentally, where did I first hear this news minutes after it broke? On the video social media service Seesmic, which Paul Bradshaw covered recently in Tidbits.
I don't think Rubel was drawing a direct line between...
