Tom's Hardware SOLD......serious $$

Seeing as I mostly hang out here in the Homebuilt section, thought I'd mention it here:

Seems Tom's Hardware is in the process of, or has just been, SOLD.

And no chump change either.....$15 to $20 MILLION is the purported number. 8O

Seeing as the VAST majority of people visit Toms for the forums, not necessarily just simply the articles, I would venture that most of us regulars here have therefore contributed as well to that $15M+ value. WOW. Just wow.

Ya think maybe Omid Rahmat, CEO of Tom's Publishing, might buy us lunch or something for boosting the traffic here (and therefore value) of his company????????????

I'd take a free lunch.

I just hope the site improves after the sale.... It's all been said before.

The link is on Tom's front page. It starts here, follow it through.

And please DON'T go on some rant about the Inquirer. In this one instance, they received confirmation of the info from Tom's publisher himself. This isn't a rumor, regardless of what people think of the Inquirer.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38781

Damn, there was another link to substantiate, and it seems to be gone.....or else I've lost it. Sorry.

Well, as long as things continue and/or improve, then that's great.


I just thought I'd take the "What If" philosophical approach for a minute and ask what this place would be without the people that support it for FREE


LOL. Lunch a couple hundred ways.......that still leaves...oh....about $15M +

It’s no doubt that Toms Hardware is a hot Commodity or more a more suitable statement (hot community)
We can only hope that this site will shine for another ten years.

Last time I built a computer, I read the Tom's site for days and found pretty much all the information I needed (this was probably 6-8 years ago).

This time, I read Tom's and went on looking as the information just wasn't there (what was there was well-done but the breadth of info was non-existent). These forums ended up being where I found alot of my information - it's too bad when the "pro" sites end up being less useful than the forums.

What corporate to the right? Oh, I suppose I need to disable Adblock and some other Firefox addons to see it.

Selling.

Sounds like it's a complete sell, not a merger or acquisition.....which would mean he's gone and enjoying his retirement......unless the new guys wanna keep him for "continuity".......

Yeah, but the market is bigger and more diversified now. This isn't a shock.

God, deciding on a chipset is hard enough. Then there's many boards per chipset, loads of new features, interfaces etc.

so then Omid isn't gonna be teh boss anymore? i think i liked him as a person, although many argue that he was a bad CEO/driver of Tom's/whatever. well, i guess we'll see how it goes, he alluded to favorable changes, so... //shrug//