TechCrunch has a brand new proprietor, once more. Yahoo has bought the tech information web site to the personal fairness agency Regent for an undisclosed sum, in accordance with an announcement on Friday.
When Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 and Yahoo in 2017, the corporate folded TechCrunch, Engadget, Yahoo Sports activities, and different websites into a brand new division known as Oath, which later grew to become Verizon Media. In 2021, Verizon bought its media division to Apollo International Administration for $5 billion, and it was renamed Yahoo!
“Yahoo determined to promote TechCrunch as a result of, in the long run, our DNA is solely completely different from the remainder of its portfolio,” TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos writes within the announcement, noting that Yahoo will nonetheless have a “small curiosity” in TechCrunch.
