favorite sharing tool Delicious, a classic of Internet, it seems that the end will be sold by an amount ranging between one and two million . Some specialized sites suggest that the buyer would StumbleUpon , developing a similar service.
So Business Insider says that Yahoo is about to close the sale under the code name 'Dragon Project' , already filtered last December and could lead next week.
past had been rumored for months now about the possible sale of the service end, as part of a strategy for Yahoo to focus only the most profitable Internet company through the sale of content and advertising.
Remember the British newspaper The Guardian that Yahoo failed to get economic benefit from Delicious, although its users are very loyal to the service. Their service was never integrated with the Yahoo search system
For its part, the prospective buyer, StumbleUpon, offers a service similar to the famous markers Delicious. In addition, have money to buy : recently completed a financing round of $ 17 million.
Yahoo acquired Delicious in December 2005 by a figure never revealed, but he could be around 10 to 15 million dollars.
Josh Schachter, founder of Delicious late 2003, left the company after expressing his dissatisfaction with his use Yahoo's service.
Source: www.elmundo.es
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