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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: 4, Insightful) by Michelle on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:35PM
I cannot for the life of me believe that Dice is still around. I've had experiences with them in the past; only calls I ever got through them were from headhunters (mostly overseas). "Jobs" that don't exist when you follow up on it.
I'm not quite clear how they thought strangling /. and driving away much of their longtime loyal userbase, and then trashing projects on SF with malware was going to help their business model.
Good riddance, Dice. What will you destroy next?
"Right now is the only moment you'll ever have; so why be miserable?"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Michelle on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:39PM
Oh, and this little gem is just plain insulting: "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base".
Sorry Dice, but I'm not here for you (and your capitalist cronies) to "leverage".
But then, the /. beta policies and site design were insulting too... If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
"Right now is the only moment you'll ever have; so why be miserable?"