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Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million
- yurisagalov 16y agoNot directly related to their acquisition, but I always really enjoyed their youtube "teaser video" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy4UIZWOxg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy4UIZWOxg Congrats to the team, in any case!
- windsurfer 16y agoSuch a simple, low budget video, but it really shows the care and work ethic the company has. That's exactly what any company I want to be part of would have.
- jasonli 16y agoA huge congrats to Ray and his team! As a fellow Torontonian I was so happy to hear this great news!
- cal5k 16y agoThey're shutting down the service, so this was obviously a talent acquisition. This is fantastic for Ray and the Toronto scene in general. Even better, they'll be working at Google Canada, so the talent will not be lost to the US and hopefully the money will recirculate in the Canadian economy. To an extent, this is also endemic of Canadian startups in general... witness Radian6's recent acquisition by Salesforce.com. We're just not turning out big, global, multi-billion-dollar businesses like RIM or (formerly) Nortel. Hopefully some of this newfound money will go back into funding new startups that can make the leap.
- slackerIII 16y agoDo you know how big the team is? I'm curious how much talent $25M buys.
- 3kMarlin 16y agoThere were 30 people there in September 2010.
- slackerIII 16y agoDo you know how many were engineers/designers?
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- jayair 16y agoCongrats to the team!
- quinndupont 16y agoI'm told Toronto has the highest concentration of mobile developers in North America (or the world). I don't know the source for this claim, but it seems plausible.
- zzzmarcus 16y ago"helps Mobile Operators defend against disintermediation while increasing ARPU by providing users an unparalleled mobile entertainment experience driving significantly increased content purchases." Clear enough :)
- WhatMatt3rs 16y agoman, good thing you say for HOW MUCH. YC companies have to fing learn!!!!!