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Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org

Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

05 Oct 2005

I'd like to congratulate our advisory board member Leonard Lin and the rest of the gang at Upcoming.org for their acquisition by Yahoo. Nice one!

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