This is clickbait journalism at its worst. Let's look at the all the ways this story is designed to mislead and deceive: * Provocative headline, designed to at

This is clickbait journalism at its worst. Let's look at the all the ways this story is designed to mislead and deceive: * Provocative headline, designed to attract attention * Use of the word "Exclusive" to imply that this is important information * Says acquisitions talks *are* underway, despite having little or no evidence of that * Reliance on anonymous second or third-hand sources - the only evidence for "acquisition" is something that an employee overheard the CEO say * Update, placed at the end of the story, that disconfirms the story * Placement on aggregator sites like Reddit and Hacker News in order to drive pageviews I rarely say this about stories on the frontpage, but in my opinion, this story should be flagged and deleted. There's no content here, and driving traffic to bgr rewards them for putting out this kind of fake news. This story reads like someone took Ryan Holiday's book, Trust Me I'm Lying and treated it as a field manual rather than a set of warnings.