Paul Jacobson

Tag: acquisition

  • The curious announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious

    The curious announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious

    I’m not sure what to make of the announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious. If Maciej Ceglowski did, indeed, buy the service to preserve the bookmarks then that is a good thing for the open Web.

  • Perhaps WhatsApp won't be merged with Facebook Messenger

    Update (2014-02-20): Nathan makes a good point in the comments and I was also reminded of my post from about a year ago in which I considered the implications of just such an acquisition. I was just reading the Facebook press release about its $16bn WhatsApp acquisition and noticed this quote by WhatsApp’s co-founder and […]