- Apr 20, 2011
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Launched back in 2003, the Delicious web site was a way for users to store and share web bookmarks with others. It was popular among people in the tech industry but never really broke out into the mainstream like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter did. In 2005 Yahoo acquired Delicious. But the company didn't do much to promote or improve the site and in late 2010 Yahoo admitted that it was looking to sell off Delicious. In May 2011, Yahoo did just that. Delicious was acquired for an undisclosed sum to Avos Systems, a company founded by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube.
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