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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 devour extra, and extra focused information. It had some devoted followers, however by no means reached the kind of scale that may have made it a lovely long-term venture. So, the Instagram founders who constructed it determined to sundown the service.
Then TechCrunch’s dad or mum 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 getting smaller, mobile-focused firms.
No matter whether or not or not you had been an Artifact person — I used to be for a time — that Yahoo continues to be feeling acquisitive below its present possession construction issues. Artifact is hardly the one startup venture out there at the moment that could be on the lookout for a brand new house, in any case.