I have been hearing a rumour on the grapevine that Yahoo! may be buying Del.icio.us for between $30-$40 million. I’m not sure yet if this is more rumour-mongering – the same as the Riya-Google rumours of a few weeks ago or if there is something more behind this.
UPDATE:
The Yahoo! – Del.icio.us deal was announced today – cool, I was on the nail!
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7 responses to “Yahoo! buying Del.icio.us?”
Is there anything that Yahoo! can’t make boring?
Every acquisition they’ve made recently has sucked the heat out of whatever technology they’ve bought, though admittedly they almost started an outright insurrection amongst their Flickr userbase. Which if anything was good for a laugh.
It’s like Yahoo! are the IBM of web services, they have the technology but everything they touch instantly becomes dull.
[…] Stanno girando parecchie voci su un probabile acquisto di del.icio.us da parte di Yahoo. A quanto pare si parla di cifre che si aggirano intorno ai 40 milioni di dollari. Forse si saprà qualcosa di più in giornata. […]
I’ve never been a fan of del.icio.us but I have visited many times and added a few links and tags just to see how it worked or if anything had changed. There is no way its worth that amount of money, but I guess its the few million users eyes that any potential buyer is after. Damn advertisers 🙁
Confirmed! Well scooped Tom. http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html
[…] Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! < -> Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog. […]
[…] I’ve just added a del.icio.us links box onto my sidebar. Since Paul told me about del.icio.us back in the summer I’ve been using it constantly. Shame they’ve had some downtime recently, the sonner they move to Yahoo! datacentres the better. […]
[…] Es gehen derzeit Gerüchte um, nach denen Yahoo kurz vor der Ankündigung einer Übernahme von del.icio.us steht. Angeblich ist eine Summe von 30 bis 40 Millionen Dollar im Gespräch. Den Investorenkreis rund um Joshua Schachter würde dieser Deal sicherlich freuen… […]