FS tells me that Ars Technica reports that Dice is selling the Slashdot and Sourceforge sites. The company in their second quarter earnings announcements stated they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business", and are planning to divest this business.
The report goes on to note that in spite of what the report calls "an incredibly loyal and passionate following of tech professionals," Slashdot and SourceForge aren't core to DHI's business and that DHI has partnered with KeyBanc Capital Markets to advise DHI on the sale. There is no buyer lined up yet.
The report also says that Slashdot Media (the aggregate of Slashdot and SourceForge) made $1.7 million in revenue for the second quarter and that it's estimated Slashdot Media will pull somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in revenue for fiscal 2015.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:51PM
1: M$
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:57PM
Oh, the irony. That would be like when Scientology bankrupted and bought the Cult Awareness Network. Slashdot could become part of Microsoft's campaign to re-introduce itself to the computing public by trumpeting their commitment to "Open Source." Watch it happen.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:02PM
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:21PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Touché) by zocalo on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:51PM
Well, not unless we're talking about Oracle making the profit...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:37PM
clearly this is the perfect acquisition for SCO...
(Score: 2) by bryan on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:09PM
3. Facebook
How many billions did they pay for WhatsApp again - just to get the user base? Slashdot only being in the "M's" instead of the "B's" would be a drop in the bucket in comparison.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:04PM
Is that some extrapolative reference to Aldous Huxley's /Brave New World/?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:15PM
"M"illions of users instead of "B"illions.
Even the /. trolls should grade better than a M on the Brave New World scale. That's pretty harsh.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:07AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Informative) by bryan on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:30PM
No. An "M" is the first letter in Million while a "B" is the first letter in Billion. A number of Facebook's recent acquisitions [wikipedia.org] have been in the billions. Namely, Instagram at 1 billion, WhatsApp at 19 billion, and Oculus VR at 2 billion.
In Brave New World, the population is born into classes of varying intelligence levels. The upper end of the population (the Alphas and Betas) are allowed to develop under healthy conditions, while the lower castes (Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon) are deprived of oxygen or poisoned during embryo development to stunt their abilities. The further down the Greek alphabet, the worse off the class. Even so, the Epsilons (the 5th Greek letter [wikipedia.org]) are pretty much the bottom tier. Extrapolating down to "M" or Mu (the 12th Greek letter [wikipedia.org]) would mean a pretty deranged individual! Even Slashdot doesn't deserve such as shameful label.
P.S. The classes also dress in class appropriate colors [amazonaws.com]. Betas are red and Gammas are green!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by meisterister on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:51PM
4. Google
While I don't expect this to happen, Google would buy it, integrate it into their existing services, and completely destroy the site.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 5, Funny) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:52PM
Google would buy it, not touch it at all, and then cancel it after a few years of general success.
FTFY
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:29PM
5. Donald Trump
Hey, he's got a lot of money and is looking for bully pulpits...and I'm sure he wants the tech vote along with the Fox News vote.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @10:14AM
What Trump has is debt.
If all his creditors called in all his debts, he'd be in a very deep hole.
This is a guy who lost half of the $millions he inherited before he ever made a dime.
This is a guy who couldn't make money with a casino.
Trump is simply a blowhard with a lot of prejudices and stupid opinions.
...and, btw, Bernie Sanders moved up from his 12 percent approval rating in the previous poll to a 24 percent approval in July.
This is better than any Republican's approval rating.
In the same period, Hillary dropped from 48 percent to 43.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday August 01 2015, @01:15PM
Hillary vs Trump.
That's like suicide by antimatter carpet bombing of your local hemisphere.
The only thing worse would be if they declare their opponent as their VP :D
Bite harder Ouroboros, bite! tails.boum.org/ linux USB CD secure desktop IRC *crypt tor (not endorsements (XKeyScore))
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @02:24AM
Yeah. In the primary, I'll support Bernie.
While he's not the best on the ballot, he's the one in the best position to make things better.
If Bernie doesn't survive the primary, I'll be voting for Jill Stein (again):
Anti-war, good on the environment, not a Wall Street whore.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:51PM
6. Warren Buffet - to use to post the results of his bridge abd poker games with Bill Gates
7. Intel & IBM and use it as a pressroom for comming tech/research