Yahoo, the company behind the popular to-do app Astrid acquired for an undisclosed amount. It comes to a talent acquisition; the application will be vnom is reached and the team behind the todo app, go to Yahoo to get started.
The todo app will have ninety days are online, so has ceo Jon Paris of Astrid announced. In that time, users can have their todo-lists to export. Who have a premium subscription, will receive from Yahoo his money back. It is no longer possible for new premium subscriptions. The application was downloaded four million times.
The team of Astrid, that about ten members, goes to work at Yahoo. It happens more often that large companies start-ups to take over because the team that is behind and not so much the technology developed by the company. It is unknown what Yahoo exactly for the start-up has paid in, but according to TechCrunch, that’s more than the average of such acquisitions.
