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Twitter Acquires Data Mining Startup Lucky Sort

Mike Isaac in Social on May 13 at 1:49 pm PT

Twitter announced on Monday it acquired Lucky Sort, a startup focused on making “huge document sets easier to analyze, summarize and visualize.” Three team members from the startup will join Twitter’s revenue engineering department in San Francisco, and the company will slowly transition users off of its system before Twitter shutters the startup’s existing products.

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Yahoo Snaps Up Mobile Gaming Company Loki Studios

Mike Isaac in Mobile on May 10 at 3:40 pm PT

Yahoo has acquired mobile gaming startup Loki Studios, the company announced on Friday. The staff will join Yahoo’s mobile team to work on unspecified projects — though Loki’s specialty seemed to be in location-based mobile products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Twitter Confirms Music Startup Acquisition

Mike Isaac in Social on April 11 at 5:53 pm PT

Twitter on Thursday acknowledged that it had acquired We Are Hunted, a startup aimed at tracking the most popular songs on the social network at a given time. As we wrote previously, the team has been working on a yet-to-debut standalone Twitter Music app, which helps Twitter users find the most popular music recommendations across the company’s 200-million-user network. CNET first reported the acquisition news.

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Pinterest Acquires Mobile Startup Livestar

Mike Isaac in Mobile on March 20 at 1:54 pm PT

Pinterest announced Wednesday it had acquired Livestar, the small mobile-focused recommendations startup. Livestar’s three-engineer team will join Pinterest, but CEO Fritz Lanman will not; he’ll move on to another yet-to-be-announced startup, while maintaining an advisory role at Pinterest. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Livestar will shut down its services immediately.

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Facebook Snags Talent From Design Firm Hot Studio

Mike Isaac in Social on March 14 at 1:30 pm PT

Facebook announced Thursday it has made a talent deal, bringing in a number of designers from the San Francisco-based design firm Hot Studio. The “acqhire” brings over an undisclosed number of the team, and Facebook did not share the financial terms of the deal. “The transition will be careful and deliberate, occurring over the next few months,” Facebook said in a blog post. “When it’s finished, many of the talented individuals from Hot Studio will be embedded into our product design, communication design, research, engineering, and content strategy teams.”