Tag: the verge

Good night and good luck, Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg’s final weekly column. He started out in 1991 with “computers are just too hard to use”, and ends with the dangers of ambient computing and its power resting in a few companies: …if we are really going to turn over our homes, our cars, our health and more to private tech companies, on a scale never imagined, we need much, much stronger standards for security and privacy than now exist. Especially in the U.S., it’s time to stop dancing around the privacy and security issues and pass real, binding laws. But, as tectonic shifts like this occur in technology,

What sort of a blogging empire does $80 million get you?

Jim Bankoff raises another $40 million (to add to the existing $40 million) in Vox Media, home of SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, and a number of other blogs. That’s a lot of capital, and I struggle to see a buy-out as an end game for Bankoff and the team. This is either going to be a rather large IPO, or a forward looking attempt to establish Vox as a CBS/NBC/ABC for the 21st century and stay around forever.