Yahoo buys email start-up OddpostPosted 12/07/2004
Web giant Yahoo has announced that it has purchased San Francisco email firm Oddpost.
Yahoo eventually plans to integrate Oddpost's popular, user-friendly design into Yahoo Mail and other services. Oddpost users will keep their accounts for now, but subscriptions will eventually migrate to Yahoo's premium mail service.
In a message to subscribers, posted on Friday, Oddpost Inc said it had been bought by Yahoo and that its development team was focusing it energy on building new additions to Yahoo Mail.
"Oddpost.com will continue to operate with no interruption in service," the company announced. "However, from this day forward, we'll be working on a new, advanced Yahoo Mail product."
Three-year-old Oddpost offers a $30-a-year service with a user interface that mimics desktop email software, allowing users to drag messages from one folder to another and open messages without loading a new web page.
Yahoo has been introducing a string up upgrades and improvements to its email service in a bid to compete with the impending launch of Google's Gmail, currently in testing. Last month, Yahoo redesigned the look of Yahoo Mail and raised the storage limits for its free and premium accounts.
Full terms of the Oddpost deal have not been disclosed. © DeHavilland Information Services plc
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