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Sure, the CBS-CNET Deal Seems Crazy–But Maybe in a Good Way

in News on July 18, 2008 at 7:02 am PT

A lot of people have been piling on CBS for its deal to buy Web site operator CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in cash. Not BoomTown. And it is not because newly crowned CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith is the ever-amusing Energizer Bunny of the Internet. Okay, CBS paid too much and that makes the whole thing suspect. But is it the wrong direction?