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Why didn't they explore the possibility of being acquired before just deciding to drop everything and shut down? Or maybe this was their strategy for getting e
by w1ntermute 16y ago
Why didn't they explore the possibility of being acquired before just deciding to drop everything and shut down?
Or maybe this was their strategy for getting enough publicity to get more favorable acquisition offers...
- agravier 16y agoMy understanding is that they did try to sell Xmarks, but noone would want of them until this announcement and the subsequent massively suportive reaction from the community that revealed that people seem do infact be ready to pay for the service.
- aditya 16y agoreminds me of the tr.im snafu... and then they ended up open sourcing everything because no one would pay 80-100k for it. the Xmarks folks seem more honorable, though.
- aresant 16y agoThey tried to sell twice Once reported in "final" blog post - http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1886 http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1886 Once reported by Kara Swisher - http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100928/the-long-goodbye-xmarks-tried-to-sell-twice-before-closing-down-with-class/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100928/the-long-goodbye-xmarks-...