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Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind

posted by on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the unicorn-cannibalism dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

According to a Monday report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Square has acquired the "five- to ten-person" engineering team of Yik Yak for $3 million. That leaves just a handful of employees at the Atlanta-based social networking startup. In December 2016, the company already fired 30 of its 50 employees.

Since late last year, Yik Yak has largely gone silent. Its Twitter account hasn't posted since January 4, and its corporate blog has not posted since a month before that. According to Bloomberg, Square has not acquired any other companies since it bought the food delivery startup Caviar in 2014. (Square was founded as a mobile payment company in 2009 by Jack Dorsey, who also founded Twitter.)

Sounds like bad news for Yik Yak, good news for Yik Yak's engineers.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:44PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:44PM (#500740) Journal

    After a while, those startup news start to feel like "Keeping up with Kardashians" or something.
    I mean... they're inconsequential to everyday life, why should I care?

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday April 27 2017, @04:39PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday April 27 2017, @04:39PM (#500780)

    It seems irrelevant, unless you're living in a similar story. There are a lot more nerds living the startup life than there are entertainers living the Kardashian's lives.

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