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Essentially Mossberg and Kara Swisher needed the WSJ affiliation more than WSJ now needs them. Should be interesting to see how much power they wield going forw
by larrys 13y ago
Essentially Mossberg and Kara Swisher needed the WSJ affiliation more than WSJ now needs them. Should be interesting to see how much power they wield going forward.
- tesseractive 13y agoTo whatever degree the Journal made the decision, I expect it was either over cost or over their desire to have more control over their own technology coverage. ATD has a pretty huge following, and I can't imagine that they will have any trouble driving plenty of traffic and/or signing up a new partner without the Journal.
- benologist 13y agoATD are a pretty big brand at least in startups now, they've been visibly out-scooping TechCrunch et al all year - all the Yahoo stuff including Tumblr broke through them, Google's massive investment in Uber, Rakuten's $200m acquisition of Viki etc.