http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:43:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-45338 Mark Evans :: Well, Well: Tucows Bought Kiko Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:34:20 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/#comment-45338 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] It turns out the mystery eBay buyer for Kiko was Tucows Inc. and my friend, Elliot Noss. Noss explains the Toronto-based company's rational in a lengthy post. Essentially, it boils down to Tucows' need for a calendar application within its e-mail system, and buying Kiko for $258,100 on eBay provided Tucows with good technology much faster than developing it internally. "We all believe that a calendar is a very important function in the messaging suite for small businesses," Noss said. "Given that people don't want to maintain separate services for personal and business use, and because the line between personal and business services is getting blurrier, we felt this functionality was a big hole for us." For people unfamilar with Tucows, it provides more than 6,000 ISPs, hosting companies and service providers with wholesale tools such as blogging publishers (Blogware), software, e-mail and domain name registration. The company also operates a software download site with more than 40,000 titles.Update: For more check, out Mathew Ingram and Don Dodge. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] It turns out the mystery eBay buyer for Kiko was Tucows Inc. and my friend, Elliot Noss. Noss explains the Toronto-based company’s rational in a lengthy post. Essentially, it boils down to Tucows’ need for a calendar application within its e-mail system, and buying Kiko for $258,100 on eBay provided Tucows with good technology much faster than developing it internally. “We all believe that a calendar is a very important function in the messaging suite for small businesses,” Noss said. “Given that people don’t want to maintain separate services for personal and business use, and because the line between personal and business services is getting blurrier, we felt this functionality was a big hole for us.” For people unfamilar with Tucows, it provides more than 6,000 ISPs, hosting companies and service providers with wholesale tools such as blogging publishers (Blogware), software, e-mail and domain name registration. The company also operates a software download site with more than 40,000 titles.Update: For more check, out Mathew Ingram and Don Dodge. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-45228 Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Blogs: What are they worth? Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:58:23 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/#comment-45228 [...] Kiko Finds a Home in Toronto [...] [...] Kiko Finds a Home in Toronto [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-45164 Mathew Ingram Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:59:49 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/#comment-45164 Thanks, Marshall. Thanks, Marshall.

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-45163 Marshall Kirkpatrick Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:58:36 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/09/05/kiko-finds-a-home-in-toronto/#comment-45163 Yup, sounds like a good move. Like your take on it. Yup, sounds like a good move. Like your take on it.

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