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Yahoo Acquires Xobni

• hamax 13y 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 13y ago
    probably because both oohaY and inboX are just round the corner from most of us around here.
  • apu 13y ago
    $60 million is an acqui-hire?
    • ibdknox 13y ago
      After $42M in investment, yeah.
    • dsl 13y 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 13y 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 13y ago
  Don't Xobni own the bookmarking tool that they rescued a few years ago?
• sjs382 13y ago
  Blog post: http://blog.xobni.com/post/54534193175/oohay http://blog.xobni.com/post/54534193175/oohay FAQ: https://support.xobni.com/entries/21914995 https://support.xobni.com/entries/21914995
• JocoProductions 13y ago
  There's also a very cool history behind Xobni featured on their homepage: https://www.xobni.com/ https://www.xobni.com/.
  • ddorian43 13y ago
    The guy is holding the dog from the groin...
    • bonforte 13y 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.