Curated playlist
2019 mergers and acquisitions
- Inverse (website)Inverse, a website for young tech fans, laid off six writers in August 2018. Traffic rebounded by year's end.
- Crunchyroll Store AustraliaTwo anime importers started Madman Entertainment in 1996 as a mail-order business. It later became Crunchyroll Pty. Ltd.
- Game (retailer)By April 2026, every standalone Game store in the UK had closed. The video game retailer once had 609 UK stores.
- MyspaceIn March 2019, a botched server move erased 12 years of Myspace posts and photos. The site had no backup.
- Sports IllustratedHenry Luce's own colleagues mocked his plan for Sports Illustrated. They called it "Muscle" and "Jockstrap".
- TumblrTumblr sold in 2019 for less than $3 million. Yahoo had paid $1.1 billion for it in 2013.
- NMENME was bought for £1,000 just fifteen minutes before it was due to close for good.
- Leonine HoldingIn September 2019, the investment firm KKR renamed its combined company Leonine.
- WABC (AM)New York's WABC radio began in 1921 in a rooftop shack reached only by ladder.
- TheStreetTheStreet, a financial news website, was worth $1.7 billion at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
- New York (magazine)New York magazine died in 1966 and was reborn two years later. It first began as a Sunday supplement in 1963.
- HootersHooters began as a joke that its own founders expected to fail. The American restaurant chain was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on the 1st of April 1983, and the date was chosen on purpose. April Fools' Day suited six local…
- Insomniac GamesInsomniac Games began with a nine-year-old and an Atari 2600. When that console appeared in 1977, young Ted Price decided he wanted to work in video games. Today the studio he founded is based in Burbank, California, and belongs to…
- Oaktree Capital ManagementOaktree Capital Management raised $1.5 billion within three months of opening in 1995.
- HamleysHamleys, the British toy retailer, began life in 1760 under a different name: Noah's Ark. William Hamley opened it at number 231 High Holborn in London, and his surname eventually replaced the biblical one over the door. The Guinness Book…