CNN negotiates Mashable purchase

Today, there were interesting news that CNN could acquire one of the largest IT blogs, Mashable, for about $ 200 million. The deal, as far as can be understood, is kept secret, but some information still leaked at one of the conferences, 2012 South by Southwest.

The first of this information was reported by one of the representatives of the Reuters news agency, named Felix Salmon. He managed to obtain transaction data from an anonymous source. It is worth recalling that Mashable was founded in July 2005, so $ 200 million is a good price for this resource. About 20 million unique visitors visit the blog every month.
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News received by Salmon is partially confirmed by the famous resource The New York Times. True, they claim that the negotiations are not yet completed. As far as you can understand, all this should be confirmed tomorrow, CNN is going to officially announce the purchase of Mashable. In general, if the transaction takes place, then it is comparable to the purchase of Techcrunch tekloblog. He bought AOL at a lower price, about 40 million dollars.

Via cnet