Yahoo Acquires Xobni(techcrunch.com)

35 pointsby staunch13 anni fa11 comments

techcrunch.com

Yahoo Acquires Xobni

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

4 comments

JocoProductions13 anni fa

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

ddorian4313 anni fa

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

bonforte13 anni fa

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.

sjs38213 anni fa

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

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

hamax13 anni fa

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.

hkmurakami13 anni fa

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

apu13 anni fa

$60 million is an acqui-hire?

ibdknox13 anni fa

After $42M in investment, yeah.

dsl13 anni fa

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.

hnriot13 anni fa

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

thehodge13 anni fa

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