Yahoo Acquires Xobni

Posted by staunch on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:21PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by JocoProductions on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:02PM (#5987804)

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by ddorian43 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:21PM (#5987876)

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by bonforte on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:36PM (#6016434)

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.

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by sjs382 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:53PM (#5987769)

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

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by hamax on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:44PM (#5987721)

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.

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by hkmurakami on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:03PM (#5987812)

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by apu on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:51PM (#5987759)

$60 million is an acqui-hire?

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by dsl on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:24PM (#5987885)

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.

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by ibdknox on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:58PM (#5987791)

After $42M in investment, yeah.

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by hnriot on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:48PM (#5987744)

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

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Re:Yahoo Acquires Xobni by thehodge on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:51PM (#5987761)

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

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