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A comment on Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million.

Re:Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million by cal5k on Friday April 08, 2011 @07:24PM (#2425978)
They'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.

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Re:Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million by slackerIII on Friday April 08, 2011 @08:45PM (#2426141)
Do you know how big the team is? I'm curious how much talent $25M buys.
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Re:Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million by 3kMarlin on Friday April 08, 2011 @09:00PM (#2426164)
There were 30 people there in September 2010.
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Re:Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million by slackerIII on Friday April 08, 2011 @10:04PM (#2426281)
Do you know how many were engineers/designers?
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