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Information that Yahoo is shopping for Artifact stirred the know-how watercooler yesterday. Artifact was an fascinating app, using AI to assist its customers discover and eat extra, and extra focused information. It had some devoted followers, however by no means reached the type of scale that might have made it a beautiful long-term venture. So, the Instagram founders who constructed it determined to sundown the service.
Then TechCrunch’s guardian firm Yahoo determined to snap up its know-how. The app itself isn’t lengthy for the world, however all the identical the deal is an echo of an older time when Yahoo was well-known for purchasing smaller, mobile-focused corporations.
No matter whether or not or not you have been an Artifact consumer — I used to be for a time — that Yahoo continues to be feeling acquisitive underneath its present possession construction issues. Artifact is hardly the one startup venture out there right this moment that may be on the lookout for a brand new dwelling, in spite of everything.