AOL snaps up Autoblog

07 October 2005

AOL to buy AutoblogWeblogs Inc, owner of the popular Autoblog, has agreed to be bought by everyone’s favourite clueless online dinosaur, AOL.

Autoblog itself doesn’t yet seem to have commented on this meeting of minds.

According to AOL, Weblogs will be left to its own devices and run as a wholly-owned subsidiary, once the deal is confirmed by AOL shareholders. Big clunky companies often say this when they buy a small and more fashionable company. It doesn’t tend to work out that way in the long or even medium term, of course.

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