Univision’s E-Commerce Bet is Built on Gawker’s Ashes

TheStreet: What was Gawker? A trailblazing, piercer of pretense? A snarky, vestigial leftover of the early bloggy web? A company that early on understood the relationship between reader enthusiasm and selling stuff? Probably all three. It’s the last one though — founder Nick Denton’s embrace of selling goods — that may be one of its greatest legacies.