Katie Benner, Columnist

Benner on Tech: Vox Buys Re/code, IRS Is Hacked

Katie Benner’s roundup of the most interesting things in tech, today.

May 27, 2015 at 2:10 PM UTC

Katie Benner is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley. She lives in San Francisco. Benner previously wrote a tech and finance column for the Information. She has worked at Fortune, TheStreet.com and CNN Money, and was a freelance writer based in China covering culture, business and politics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bowdoin College.

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If you’re a dedicated reader of tech news (why else would you read this newsletter?) then you will be interested to know that Re/code, the news website founded by tech journalist luminaries Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, has been sold to Vox Media. The deal news broke during Re/code’s hugely successful Code Conference, a confab with a $6,500 ticket price that draws big names such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra, and the heads of Airbnb, Twitter, GoPro, Snapchat and BuzzFeed.