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Acquisition
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LinkedIn Acquires Bright: Big Data Job Matching
LinkedIn's ~$120M acquisition of Bright, a job-matching startup that used machine learning to score candidate-job fit from resume and job description text. A signal of how ML-powered matching was becoming central to professional network platforms.
Sparrow Acquired by Google
Sparrow, the best Mac and iOS email client of its era, was acquihired by Google in July 2012 — immediately abandoning its user base without an acquirer to maintain the product. A defining moment in the 'acquihire kills good products' pattern.