Congratulations to Ars Technica who yesterday announced their sale to Conde Nast. We at FM are thrilled for our friends and long-time partners at Ars. We've enjoyed working closely with Ken Fisher and the rest of the Ars team on some of our favorite marketing projects. Clearly, Conde Nast saw the value we've helped to create and we're excited to see where they take Ars in the future. Ken and his team worked very, very hard for the past decade on building the Ars brand, and the result is one of the best tech sites on the Web. And we are particularly proud of what Ken has to say about FM in his announcement:

Via Ars Technica:

"In particular I want to thank John Battelle, Neil Chase, Jason Weisberger, and Marcia Simmons at Federated Media, among many awesome people there. Silicon Valley is loaded with businesses that like to project an altruistic image. Federated Media is one of the few that's not shoveling a load of you-know-what when they do it. True believers, I wish them success."

Thanks, Ken!