Conde Nast, which bought Wired magazine eight years ago, is paying $25 million to acquire troubled online site Wired News from Lycos, the companies said late Tuesday.
Conde Nast, whose roster of publications includes The New Yorker, Vogue and Architectural Digest, will retain the 15 to 20 Wired News staffers, according to Daum Communications of Korea, which bought Lycos two years ago. The Wired News staff is located in the same building as the print magazine in downtown San Francisco.
Lycos will retain Hotbot, Hotwired and Webmonkey, the other Wired Digital properties.
"Wired News has always been synonymous with Wired Magazine, so it made sense for Lycos to transfer Wired News to Conde Nast, the parent company of Wired Magazine," Alfred Tolle, chief executive of Lycos, said in a statement. "Wired News continues to be a leading brand in online news and this new ownership with strengthen both Wired News and Wired Magazine, creating better synergy between the two media brands."
Steve Newhouse, chairman of the Advance.Net web division of Advance Publications, the privately held parent company of Conde Nast, said reuniting Wired News with Wired magazine had been a longtime goal.
"Wired's focus on innovation and how technology is changing the world can now be matched with our own innovation and experimentation with new ways of doing media online," said Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine's editor-in-chief. "We're bursting with ideas and can't wait to put them into practice."
The move comes as online advertising is pushing revenues at Google and other Internet companies to record levels.
A year ago Wired News laid off about half its employees, including all staff writers. Editors have been relying on freelancers and wire reports to populate the site with news since then.
Wired News is the successor to HotWired.com, a news and commentary site that was an early user of now standard technologies like dynamically generated Web pages, user subscriptions, online chats and banner ads. Wired magazine, which was launched in 1993 and founded by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, was a pioneer in covering the Internet and digital culture.
why not just call it "Tech Bloggers and Press Releases.com". As a long time "issue 1- this month" reader of Wired magazine and the wired.com site, i think i can honestly say that this shark jumped long ago, as well as the cnet news.com site i find myself "wondering why" im posting this to as well.;)
how about a simple "why" asked in this story...oh, yeah, that would require a reporter...:)
C'mon folks. They needed a staff to run that site?! <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/" target="_newWindow">http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/</a>
why not just call it "Tech Bloggers and Press Releases.com". As a long time "issue 1- this month" reader of Wired magazine and the wired.com site, i think i can honestly say that this shark jumped long ago, as well as the cnet news.com site i find myself "wondering why" im posting this to as well.;)
how about a simple "why" asked in this story...oh, yeah, that would require a reporter...:)
C'mon folks. They needed a staff to run that site?! <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/" target="_newWindow">http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/</a>
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how about a simple "why" asked in this story...oh, yeah, that would require a reporter...:)
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/" target="_newWindow">http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/</a>
how about a simple "why" asked in this story...oh, yeah, that would require a reporter...:)
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/" target="_newWindow">http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/551/43/</a>