San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2010 by Benny Evangelista
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“Today’s news has kind of reminded people that AOL is actually not dead and buried,” said Eric Talley…. The acquisition of TechCrunch, which has about 40 employees, contractors and contributors, “is not a gigantic deal,” but it does give AOL a well-known brand within the tech community, Talley said. AOL also gains the potentially valuable CrunchBase online database of company and investor information. “That data could be the source of all types of future services that AOL is interested in getting into.”