Motorola Close To Acquiring Cloud Storage Startup Zecter (YC S07)

I guess YC companies really are all on sale for Christmas.

I suspect the potential increases in the capital gains rate made founders push a little harder for a this-year close.

As it turns out, rates won't be increasing, but the prospect of an extra 5% tax likely started a lot of acquisition conversations which are now playing themselves out.

A 5% increase pushed what appear to be a raft of firesales?

Maybe there is something else happening inside this incubator that nobody is telling?

or even large companies are thinking "hey, now is a good time to buy what we're interested in!". The cause doesn't have to be YC related :p

In what way do they appear to be firesales?

Woah, orange usernames are back?

Zecter's _Zumocast_ app just got picked by Macworld as one of the best apps of the year, incidentally: http://www.macworld.com/article/156321/2010/12/appgems_media...

Congrats Zecter team - I do hope you will convince Motorola to keep ZumoCast alive and awesome.

Congrats Zecter team. Does anybody know the sale price?