One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of All Time Is Getting Bought by a Teen Clothing Store


One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of All Time Is Getting Bought by a Teen Clothing Store
Hot Topic, the fashion staple of suburban malls everywhere, announced today that it is buying Geeknet, the parent company of ThinkGeek, an online retailer catering to video game and sci-fi fans. While it may not rise to the M&A heights of Charter and Time Warner’s $55 billion deal, it did ignite a bit of nostalgia for the tech boom of the late 1990s.

May 27, 2015 at 07:32AM
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