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Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:42PM   
from the let-the-cheering-commence! dept.

iwoloschin and an Anonymous Coward write:

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.

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• Re:Readership has a strong sense of entitlement Re:Readership has a strong sense of entitlement (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:26PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:26PM (#214945)

  I haven't kept up with Slashdot in years so I'll take your comment as fact. However I will disagree with your comment about being juvenile. The main problem with polite discourse is that it only works when you have reasonable parties involved. All effective protests are disruptive, humans generally don't pay attention otherwise. I doubt Dice, or the community at large, would pay much attention to multiple long well thought out responses to shitty articles. Its the same reason the "fuck beta" campaign took off...

  So, not necessarily juvenile, just the only effective response to a system that doesn't care about the users.

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• Re:Readership has a strong sense of entitlement Re:Readership has a strong sense of entitlement (Score: 2, Funny) by jdavidb on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:00PM

  by jdavidb (5690) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:00PM (#214968) Homepage Journal

  I try to keep my discourse free of swearing and even of disrespect. I don't always succeed, but it's the goal I have in mind. Even without these expressions that you might deem immature, I still didn't like Beta.

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  • Re:Readership has a strong sense of entitlement (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:41PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:41PM (#214991) Journal

    You know, there's a time and a place. It behooves a person to start out with, "I believe, good sir, that you're not taking all the facts into account." A person ought to endeavor to preserve comity with, "I have meant to impart a reasonable counterpoint to your arguments; please consider it." But in the end, sometimes nothing drives the point home like, "You're behaving like a fucking retard."

    I know I have been shaken out of my carefully constructed rationales thus. It could work for others too.

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