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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

$60 million is an acqui-hire?

After $42M in investment, yeah.

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.

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

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

Yahoo Acquires Xobni