Yahoo Buys Blo.gs and Dialpad
Posted on June 16th, 2005 by Administrator
Yahoo! snatched up two more companies: Blo.gs and Dialpad.
Blo.gs is a blog tracking service and a ping infrastructure. A ping service like blo.gs is essentially a hub for the world’s blogs - almost every single blog software pings blo.gs by default. Blo.gs is so tied into the blog network (Technorati, Feedster, PubSub all work with blo.gs), that it would be much harder to recreate blo.gs and made much more sense to purchase the service.
Dialpad is a VoIP provider. Yahoo’s purchase of Dialpad will allow them to offer VoIP service without relying on the service of another company. Yahoo will most likely leverage Dialpad’s VoIP services to improve Yahoo! Messenger.
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