Yahoo Acquires Xobni

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/03/yahoo-acquires-xobni/

by staunch • 13 years ago

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hamax• 13 years ago

Seems like a sensible acqui-hire.

The only surprising thing for me is the amount of attention those small acquisitions by Yahoo get around here.

hnriot• 13 years ago

probably because both oohaY and inboX are just round the corner from most of us around here.

apu• 13 years ago

$60 million is an acqui-hire?

ibdknox• 13 years ago

After $42M in investment, yeah.

dsl• 13 years ago

When Yahoo is on the acquiring end? Yeah.

Investors and board members know Yahoo is cash rich and sitting in a talent void. I know of a deal where they paid closed to $4 million a head.

hkmurakami• 13 years ago

well Yahoo Mail could use some love so even if it's an acquihire it seems (potentially) focused on making a particular product better.

thehodge• 13 years ago

Don't Xobni own the bookmarking tool that they rescued a few years ago?

sjs382• 13 years ago

Blog post: http://blog.xobni.com/post/54534193175/oohay

FAQ: https://support.xobni.com/entries/21914995

JocoProductions• 13 years ago

There's also a very cool history behind Xobni featured on their homepage: https://www.xobni.com/.

ddorian43• 13 years ago

The guy is holding the dog from the groin...

bonforte• 13 years ago

That dog is a girl and was pretty squirrelly 60 lbs lab for the photo and hard to hold. I checked with her if she wouldn't mind me holding her "by the groin" and got her consent.

Yahoo Acquires Xobni

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