Thursday, May 8, 2014

Science Inc. To Buy Social Bookmarking Site Delicious

Santa Monica-based Science, Inc., the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious, the company disclosed this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems. Delicious provides a tool which lets users share and rate websites to their friends and others.

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