TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox

Posted by sean_lynch on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @05:24PM
from the blog.tapengage.com dept.

http://blog.tapengage.com/2012/07/tapengage-joining-dropbox/

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by ikailan on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:02PM (#4258395)

(I noticed that this was posted by Sean)

Congrats to Sean! For people that aren't aware, for a long time, Sean was the lone product manager on Google App Engine, and he played a significant role in helping that product scale.

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by kyro on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:52PM (#4258561)

Interesting acquisition.

Perhaps Dropbox is moving more in the media center direction with their mobile apps, which are currently rather bland lists of folders and files. I could see them creating a much more interactive mobile interface to access your data and embedding ads throughout. I'd hate for them to go the way of online video and force you to watch an ad to open a file.

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by nl on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @01:51AM (#4259545)

I'm not sure how you get that - I assumed this was a fairly conventional Aquirhire.

Having said that....

SugarSync has a deal with Samsung where you can keep your files in SugarSync and play them on (some) Samsung Smart TVs. Seems like a win/win - SugarSync gets distribution and Samsung gets a nice feature.

Dropbox is already playing a similar space with its deals to get on Android phones.

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by amirmc on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:32PM (#4258271)

I'm curious. Are there any other cases where one YC company has acquired another? Is this the first?

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by oxwrist on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:57PM (#4258375)

Certainly not the first. I remembered there's Loopt acquiring GraffitiGeo but I'm sure there's more: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/20/mobile-social-network-wars-...

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by jaredsohn on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:11PM (#4258426)

From YC's first class, Reddit either acquired or merged with infogami (depending on who you read it from). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by nihaar on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:12PM (#4258428)

Here's another example: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/posterous-acquires-fellow-y...

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by mshafrir on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:00PM (#4258159)

Congrats Sean and Matt!

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by RachelF on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:50PM (#4258340)

Is Dropbox getting into ad-supported models?

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by leeskye on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @09:26PM (#4258878)

Was this in acquihire or is Dropbox intending to get into the tablet ad network game (http://www.tapengage.com/about)?

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by FredBrach on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:35PM (#4258286)

Is there a link between tablet-ads and dropbox? Sounds like a talent acquisition mmh?

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by nickwoodhams on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @01:24AM (#4259486)

Relevant ads based on your Dropbox contents? Interested in the motive here.

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Re:TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox by modarts on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:11PM (#4258423)

Seems more like a pivot into an ad supported revenue stream.

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