Thursday, January 06, 2005
Yahoo! News - Six Apart Acquires Maker of LiveJournal Weblogs
Yahoo! News - Six Apart Acquires Maker of LiveJournal Weblogs: "Six Apart Acquires Maker of LiveJournal Weblogs
Thu Jan 6, 3:46 PM ET
Add to My Yahoo! Technology - Reuters Internet Report
By Duncan Martell
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Six Apart said on Thursday it had acquired Danga Interactive Inc., bringing together two pioneers of online journals known as blogs and creating a stronger rival to Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) Blogger.com service.
Terms of the stock and cash transaction were not disclosed, said closely held San Francisco-based Six Apart, which developed the popular Movable Type online publishing software and the TypePad blogging service.
Danga, which is based in Portland, Oregon and also privately held, operates the blogging service LiveJournal, which is popular among adolescents and teenagers."
Thu Jan 6, 3:46 PM ET
Add to My Yahoo! Technology - Reuters Internet Report
By Duncan Martell
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Six Apart said on Thursday it had acquired Danga Interactive Inc., bringing together two pioneers of online journals known as blogs and creating a stronger rival to Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) Blogger.com service.
Terms of the stock and cash transaction were not disclosed, said closely held San Francisco-based Six Apart, which developed the popular Movable Type online publishing software and the TypePad blogging service.
Danga, which is based in Portland, Oregon and also privately held, operates the blogging service LiveJournal, which is popular among adolescents and teenagers."
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