CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a post on the company’s site. A source close to CoinDesk tells TechCrunch the price of the deal was around $500-600k.
The bitcoin news site, which launched in 2013, had raised around $2 million in undisclosed funding from investors and according to our source had been trying to sell for months, aiming to find a buyer for a price more in the $800k-$1M range.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/13/coindesk-acquired-by-digital-currency-group/