Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD

Salesforce acqhires a new VP of Engineering (Gary Flake; see this FAQ for details); hopefully it will also continue to invest in bringing Clipboard's founding vision to full fruition

"All but one of Clipboard’s five-person team will join Salesforce’s Seattle office, but they will be shutting down their own tools in favor of integrating similar functionality into Salesforce products.
Clipboard CEO Gary Flake is a respected tech research executive with history at Microsoft, Yahoo and Overture.
Clipboard told users about the shutdown today, saying the service would end on June 30 but users could download their data.
Calling the news “bittersweet,” the company disclosed it had 140,000 users over the past two years."

Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD