The site rojo.com has been unavailable for the last few days. No-one seems to be blogging about the days-long downtime.
ChangingWay says: I knew that Six Apart didn’t plan to keep Rojo, but I was hoping that 6A would at least keep Rojo running."
Chris Alden says the company is migrating servers and doing an upgrade which has taken a lot longer than it should. So its in a coma, not dead.
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Blogging company Six Apart will soon announce it has purchased Rojo, the web-based feed reader, for undisclosed terms.
TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington broke the news this morning; he guesses Six Apart paid $5 million.
This deal brings to a close the long saga of the Rojo story. The company was founded in June 2003, launched in October 2004 and had a stellar team of investors including TPG Ventures, BV Capital, Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway. Rojo consistently released excellent products and has a loyal core user base. Rojo had a...
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For carriers, phone vendors and for blogging service providers, camera phones are the biggest opportunity to make money.
Six Apart’s TypePad Mobile has a good shot at it. It is the rebranded version of SplashBlog, a product that came via the Splash Data acqusition back in March 2006. TypePad Mobile works on Palm Treo, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 phones. Though it is not such a large selection, it is still covers a decent number of phones and works well with TypePad.
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