CNet Acquisition?

[jjallday]

Lots of chatter out there that CNet has or is about to purchase Rev3 for $57 million.

Good, bad, indifferent, untrue?

If it turns out to be true, congrats to Jay, Prager, Kevin and anyone else with a stake. Pay day is always the best day.

[Ryudo]

I would hope not as they are the same bastards who own Gamespot and ran that place into a hole and had the whole gerstman gate and later all the best employees left.

I don't want to see another buy out and the corp take over thing ....gives bad memories of another thing with Tech TV.

[Bani-Banan]

Originally Posted by Ryudo

I would hope not as they are the same bastards who own Gamespot and ran that place into a hole and had the whole gerstman gate and later all the best employees left.

I don't want to see another buy out and the corp take over thing ....gives bad memories.

Post your source!

If CNET bought it I'd stop coming here.

Their stories are really bad. Their language is bad. I can't take them serious.

[krdclay]

Robert Scoble is twittering live on the sale of Revision3 to CNET.
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer

[Ryudo]

I think you quoted the wrong person Bani I didn't make the topic.

[David Russell]

That's a ton of money if it's true. I've yet to see any official news from either side on this, but saw a tweet from Robert Scoble about it.

[Ryudo]

Originally Posted by krdclay

Robert Scoble is twittering live on the sale of Revision3 to CNET.
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer

Well then fuck this place.

G4 all over again.

yet again heart gets ripped out....

[zucca]

-Confirmed False-

Robert Scoble is reporting this on his Twitter account. He said he will provide more details soon.

Scoble's reporting this site as being the site that broke it:

http://r3fresh.com/2008/03/14/breaki...or-57-million/

This is untrue. Jay Adelson says: "Normally, we don't comment on rumors and speculation about acquisition. But no. (What is it with you people? You're giving me a heart attack.")

Scoble retracts erroneous Tweet.

[aburd]

Here is the screencap of the twitter exchange that started all of this. I grabbed it from the Digg discussion.

[c4st]

Nope, CNET Didn’t Buy Rev3

A blogger made an offhand mention of CNET having bought Revision3 that’s gaining some steam this morning. However, the story is false; CNET did not acquire Revision3. Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback tells us people are confusing a distribution deal between the two companies with an acquisition.

“This is totally false,” Louderback writes via email. “Someone is confusing the distribution agreement with acquisition rumors. There is no truth to this chatter.”

Source: newTeeVee