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Former Yahoo executive Jeff Bonforte, now CEO of Xobni, has come up with possibly the most cynical yet useful product ever launched by a startup. Xobni, whose software tracks and analyzes email usage in Outlook, is rumored to be in acquisition talks with Microsoft. Microsoft is, to its dismay, not in acquisition talks with Yahoo. But Xobni's latest product, TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld reports, bridges Microsoft Outlook, desktop email software widely used in corporations, with Yahoo's Web-based email. "That's the kind of demo that gets deals done," Schonfeld observes. Indeed, it may make Microsoft wonder whether they need to buy Yahoo at all.
Email startup tries to hurry Microsoft-Yahoo merger
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5:40 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Uh, maybe it's because Y! is the most visited website in the world. And, uh, maybe it's because they have infinitely more traction in the search game than Microsoft.
Yeah, maybe.
You mean people aren't using Yahoo! for their excellent! and very fast web based e-mail?
*gag*
The only thing xobni has done for me is helped me identify who wastes my time the most.
xobni must be starting to get desperate.. they seem to need to sell to someone fast, guess they finally admitted they got a sucky product with a bad business model.
I don't like Jeff Bonforte as he did not add me as a contact on Linkedin. Well forget Jeff Bonforte...
Names like "Jeff Bonafarte" are why I began my career as a blog commenter.
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