Yahoo said Friday that it has bought contact management specialist Xobni for an undisclosed amount, presumably to enhance Yahoo Mail and its related applications.
Update: Charlie Cooper and I discuss Xobni in today’s News.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Xobni, a company known to date as a popular Microsoft Outlook add-in that has been downloaded almost 5 million times to help people manage their email and .
Xobni has taken its Microsoft Outlook plug-in out of private beta and made it available to the general public.
Admit it: you're treading water in the same sea of e-mail as the rest of us.
Those of you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail will be happy to know that the Xobni Outlook extension has been revamped with new integration tools for Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype and Hoovers.
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Xobni, the email startup Yahoo just acquired, was once glowingly described as "the next generation of social networking" by Bill Gates, and reportedly came close to being acquired by Microsoft.
Xobni, a startup that looks to make your inbox a little less chaotic, is well known for walking away from an acquisition offer from Microsoft last year, not long after being publically complimented by .
Yahoo can't seem to go one week without adding another startup to the portfolio.