Putting the ack! in acquihire
We’re excited to announce that Zaption has been acquired by Workday.
This will mean great things for our team as Zaption expands its impact on online learning. As part of this organizational change, we are also announcing that the Zaption platform will shut down on September 30, 2016.
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Thank you for all your support these last few years. We’ve been lucky to have such wonderful users, and we challenge you to keep creating the learning experiences that change students’ lives.
Onward!
Source: blog.zaption.com
Email, 29 June 2016:
Now that Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip, and after two years of providing the service, Dropbox has decided to stop providing the Zulip service, effective 31 July 2016.
Fortunately, a new service, founded by Tim Abbott (MIT alum, Zulip cofounder and maintainer of the Zulip open-source project), has offered to continue providing the Zulip/Zephyr service for you on its own servers. …
We can do the migration for you, but we need your permission to migrate your user data over to these new servers.
If you’re going to do it, that’s the way. Good.
(Thanks, Michael McGraw-Herdeg)
Today, we are pleased to announce that Coin’s wearable payments platform has been acquired by Fitbit…
Coin will no longer sell its line of smart payment products (Coin 2.0 has sold out). Your Coin product will work for the duration of its lifetime (the built-in battery lasts for 2 years without any recharging required). …
Coin Rewards and the Coin Developer Program are being retired with this announcement. …
It has been quite a journey and we want to thank all the customers, partners and team members who have supported Coin so far.
Source: blog.onlycoin.com
We have some exciting news to share!
Sweep has joined forces with Affirm - a company committed to delivering honest financial products to improve lives.
… starting May 25, 2016 the current Sweep app will no longer be accessible and all of your account data held by Sweep will be permanently deleted.
… Thank you for all of your feedback and support over the past few months…
Source: sweep.co
Today, I’m thrilled to share the news that Salesforce has acquired MetaMind. We couldn’t be more excited to join Salesforce. …
For unpaid web users, MetaMind’s products will be discontinued on May 4. For our monthly recurring users, MetaMind’s products will be discontinued on June 4. …
I can’t thank our customers and employees enough for their support in getting us to this point.
(Thanks, Jori Lallo)
Source: metamind.io
Gibbon joins Degreed
… The idea was simple: Allow people to share knowledge by creating playlists with the best stuff from the web.
… we want to thank our users and investors for the amazing journey…
… After 6 weeks we will put Gibbon in read-only mode. … After 12 months, Gibbon will shut down.
(Note: Gibbon describe it as “a merger” while Degreed say, “we’ve agreed to acquire Gibbon”.)
Source: gibbon.co
We want to share some exciting news with you. Revolv is now a Nest company.
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For existing customers, the service will continue to be available and we will continue to offer customer support.
We’re shutting down Revolv.
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As of May 15, 2016, Revolv service will no longer be available. The Revolv app won’t open and the hub won’t work.
(Thanks, Tom Stuart.)
Source: revolv.com
8 March 2016 (also):
We are delighted to announce that Radiant Entertainment has been acquired by Riot Games. At Riot, our developers will continue their mission of building incredible games that speak to us personally as players.
… For now, we will be permanently closing Rising Thunder on March 18th. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Alpha!
Source: radiant-entertainment.com
We have some important news to share — Poetica’s technology has been acquired by Condé Nast, where our team will continue to develop our rich editorial tools as part of Condé Nast’s copilot platform. This does mean, however, that we’ll be discontinuing the public Poetica service.
… a huge thank you to all of our users for seeing the potential in what we’d made and taking a punt on us.
Source: blog.poetica.com
For the last three years, Pie has been on a mission to make the messaging software you use at work fun, fast and exciting. …
Today, we’re excited to share that the Pie team is joining Google! In order to focus on our new adventure, Pie will be shut down on March 2, 2016. …
To our Pie users, thank you for embracing our product.
Source: pie.co