This post originally published at 11:45 a.m. Uber China to join rival Didi Chuxing in $35-billion dealġ:10 p.m.: Updated with details throughout. Tesla and SolarCity to combine in a $2.6-billion deal SolarCity stock drops Gawker has filed for bankruptcy protection. Publishing company Ziff Davis has bid to buy Gawker Media for $90 million, but another buyer may win the auction later this month. Only after Hogan won the jury verdict in March did Thiel’s role come to light. Pursuant to an order of the Bankruptcy Court dated Novem(Docket No. Gawker has argued that its footage was newsworthy and protected by the 1 st Amendment. The case stems from Gawker posting a video of Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife. If even one person has been spared the humiliation that Mr. Bollea’s legal bills, and everything to do with Denton’s own choices and accountability.
Hogan’s attorney David Houston said in a statement that Denton’s bankruptcy “has nothing to do with who paid Mr. “I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest,” he said.In a memo to Gawker Media staff, Denton wrote that it’s “disturbing to live in a world in which a billionaire can bully journalists because he didn’t like the coverage.” Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, was outed as gay by a Gawker-owned website. Thiel as unapologetic, too, calling the effort to bankrupt the media organization through litigation “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.” (More philanthropic than the money he has donated to the free-press nonprofit organization Committee to Protect Journalists, evidently.) The lawsuit, Thiel insisted in a story in The New York Times, was “more about specific deterrence” than exacting revenge. In 2007, Gawker published an article outing Thiel, titled “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.” Thiel later admitted that he had been working to fund lawsuits against Gawker for years, and has spent about $10 million of his own money to fund Hogan’s lawsuits. Two weeks ago, it was revealed that billionaire Silicon Valley investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who Gawker had covered unflatteringly in its now-defunct tech blog, Valleywag, was secretly bankrolling Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker. The Chapter 11 filing indicates Gawker has “between 200 and 1,000 creditors, between $50 million and $100 million in assets and $100 million to $500 million in liabilities.” If the verdict is upheld, the money will go to Hogan. If the judgment is overturned, the money from the sale will go back to Gawker founder Nick Denton and other company shareholders. When Gawker sells itself, the money it makes from a sale will be put in escrow during the appeals process. In the meantime, bankruptcy allows Gawker to avoid making its $140 million payment to Hogan while continuing to operate. Gawker continues to plan to appeal the verdict, The Wall Street Journal reports. Venture Partners-to help keep the lights on. In the meantime, the company will use two loans-a $7.6 million loan from Silicon Valley Bank and a $15 million loan from U.S.
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The company will be put up for auction, and publisher Ziff Davis, which owns properties including PC Magazine and AskMen, is reportedly submitting an opening bid of $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. Gawker Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to stay open and keep paying its staff after telling a judge it couldn’t afford to pay the $140 million in damages that a Florida court recently awarded former wrestler Hulk Hogan in his defamation suit against the company. Peter Thiel’s plan to take down Gawker seems to be working.
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