Thursday, April 28, 2011

Delicious sold to the founders of YouTube

The Web portal Yahoo announced Wednesday, April 27, he had sold the service to Delicious YouTube founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. "They plan to continue the service and even better," assured a spokesman Yahoo! in a statement. However, the transaction amount was not specified. The service Delicious, launched in 2003 and bought by Yahoo two years later, keeps its online favorite web pages and rank them with keywords.

Delicious example of collaborative Web, also has a large community, and lets you know which pages are most commonly shared by registrants to the site. RUMORS OF SUSPENSION OF SERVICE END 2010 Buyers, MM. Chen and Hurley, founded the video-sharing site YouTube Jawed Karim in 2005 and sold it to Google eighteen months later for $ 1.76 billion (1.19 billion euros).

Mr. Hurley has stepped down as CEO of the site in October. At the end of 2010, Yahoo announced a major restructuring. The press had reported that while the U.S. group was considering suspending Delicious, or seeking a new buyer for his service.

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