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<br/>The day began with a big media merger and ended with one other—though much smaller—digital media deal. It's at all times tricky to stability the conflict of buyers who are also actively involved in the startup scene, and are subsequently subjects for news <a href="http://www.mytechweekly.com">Technology News</a> story. Indeed, — which has groups stationed in Silicon Valley and Singapore — is a new form of conflict, since that is the founder of a startup that Tech In Asia writes about. Tech In Asia has its own ethics web page which lists its buyers and pledges to function independently of them.
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<br/>Vox's existing tech website, The Verge, attracts round 12 million month-to-month visitors, based on comScore. Vox includes its namesake news website, , as well as sports website SB Nation, meals website Eater, video-sport-targeted Polygon, real property hub Curbed and trend spot Racked. Vox Media is including tech site Re/code to its portfolio of internet sites that cover news, sports, fashion, meals and (already) tech. These current strikes are unsurprisingly contemplating that Tech In Asia has been incubated at Y Combinator — it really opened my thoughts, I'm so grateful,” Tech In Asia founder Willis Wee advised TechCrunch in a short interview.<img class='alignleft' style='float:left;margin-right:10px;' src='https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/projects/202/7261109.5470f93161f68.jpg' width='253' />
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<br/>The addition of Re/code further bolster's Vox's digital media portfolio, which started with sports activities-centric SBNation and has since expanded to include tech website The Verge and news web site Vox additionally acquired the Curbed Community — which incorporates Eater, Racked and Curbed — in 2013. The information comes on the first day of the annual Code Convention, which is currently going down in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The comScore research service says Re/code had 1.5 million unique guests in April, compared with 12 million for the Verge and fifty three million for all Vox sites combined.
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<br/>Replace Tech In Asia confirmed that has 2.4 million views across its English and Indonesian websites. Either manner, $four million is the most important spherical I've ever seen for a tech-targeted media firm in Asia — let's examine how the oldsters over at Tech In Asia use this. Tech In Asia previously raised $2.89 million throughout seed, Sequence A and (dual) Sequence B rounds. Swisher and Mossberg are expected to remain on the San Francisco-based mostly website, according to The New York Times , which first reported news of the transaction. Re/code has its roots in tech blog AllThingsD, which tech reviewer Mossberg and tech columnist Swisher launched in 2007 as part of The Wall Road Journal's community.