Loopt acquires GraffitiGeo(techcrunch.com)

52 pointsby arfrank17 anni fa12 comments

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/20/mobile-social-network-wars-loopt-acquires-graffitigeo/

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Congrats to the GraffitiGeo team!

This would seem like a talent acquisition, unless GraffitiGeo had a large amount of active users.

sama17 anni fa

Super smart guys, great tech, great product.

joez17 anni fa

Congratulations to Loopt as well!

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revorad17 anni fa

Congrats to both teams.

I just looked at Loopt's jobs page and was surprised to see they use a lot of Microsoft technologies. Do any other startups here use .Net, MSSQL etc?

gbookman17 anni fa

Mine does. If you're interested: www.clearsky-systems.com

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gbookman17 anni fa

Classic Google tactic of buying early stage companies with great technology and brains.

Is this the first time a YC company has acquired another?

sachinag17 anni fa

There's one I can think of off the top of my head: Posterous acquired Slinkset. There are probably others.

aristus17 anni fa

Reddit merged with infogami back in the day.

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

pg17 anni fa

Baseshield is also the result of a merger between two YC funded startups.

medianama17 anni fa

Any pointers on size/terms of the deal?

shafqat17 anni fa

Why was medianama's innocent question downmodded? I'd be curious to know as well? Downmodding for just asking the question is just bizarre.

jprim17 anni fa

Amazing amazing job guys! :)