Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. In the blink of an eye, the mobile app that delivers self-destructing messages has self-destructed by selling out to Yahoo. Yahoo has bought Blink for an undisclosed amount, and will soon pull the app from iTunes and the Google Play store. The Internet giant apparently didn’t want the app but wanted the developers who worked at Blink. Blink had seven employees and they are all going to Yahoo, according to TechCrunch. One of Blink’s founders is a former product manager at Yahoo’s archrival Google. |
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Yahoo buys Blink, and kills it (RCR Mobile Minute)
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