Former Yahoo Chief Technologist Joins Twitter Through Bagcheck Acquisition

Twitter has acquired Bagcheck, a site devoted to documenting personal product collections, bringing on board co-founder Sam Pullara for its engineering team. Pullara was previously chief technologist at Yahoo, before leaving to become an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital. Bagcheck, which is staying online for now, had raised funding from Sutter Hill Ventures and Morado Ventures.