Comments on: Microsoft acquires Xobni, good or bad?

By: Confirmation of Microsoft’s intent to buy Xobni | Thoughtlets

Confirmation of Microsoft’s intent to buy Xobni | Thoughtlets — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:02:53 +0000

[...] Arrington has provided independent confirmation of Laurent Féral-Pierssens’ earlier speculation about Microsoft acquiring Xobni. Looks like your comments may have been right on the money, Laurent [...]

By: Laurent’s blog » Blog Archive » Microsoft signs LoI to acquire Xobni [follow-up]

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:39:38 +0000

[...] As a follow-up to my post on friday, there is now independent confirmation that Microsoft has signed at least its side of a Letter of Intent to acquire Xobni. The price on that letter is unknown for the moment and would likely be above an initial offer of less than $20 million. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Flaurent.pierssens.com%2F2008%2F04%2F21%2Fmicrosoft-signs-loi-to-acquire-xobni-confirmed%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Microsoft+signs+LoI+to+acquire+Xobni+%5Bfollow-up%5D’; addthis_pub = ‘lfp’; [...]

By: Andrew Lampert

Andrew Lampert — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:31:30 +0000

It’s unfortunate that you don’t provide indication of its source, nor any way of verifying your claims. Anything more you can say?

By: Laurent FP

Laurent FP — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:47:45 +0000

In a way, I wish it was just misinformation especially because I would love to see Xobni stay private. We’ll have to wait for the official details.

By: Jeremy Fain

Jeremy Fain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:41:27 +0000

Mmm, it seems to be pure misinformation. I started to believe this but it appears it’s just wrong: XOBNI, to this day, is still independent, and I wish XOBNI a happy growth stage & IPO in a few years of time.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:13:05 +0000

Now where did you pick this up? Really would like to see another source.