Well, just two weeks earlier, on June 13th, in the comments under the WPDaily article about it, Vladimir flat out denied that it would be a news aggregator:

Neither is true, but this is fun :)

- http://torquemag.io/managewp-cooking/#comment-975890823

... and, if you think about it, doing yet another WordPress news site would hardly live up to his grand claim on the domain's placeholder:

Something amazing is coming from Team ManageWP that will make waves in the WordPress community

Lastly, if it is just another aggregator, why on Earth would he wait so long to launch it? There has to be more to this.