YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo!

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YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the social bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo! as part of their new Interent company AVOS.

Delicious.com, the leading social bookmarking service, has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. Their vision for Delicious is to continue to provide the same great service users love and to make the site even easier and more fun to save, share, and discover the web’s “tastiest” content. Delicious will become part of AVOS, a new Internet company.

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