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Yahoo Acquires Jybe

By TechTaffy Desk

Yahoo has acquired Jybe. Founded by five former Yahoo employees in 2011, Jybe is a personalized recommendation startup that was in stealth mode.

Jybe co-founder and CEO Arnab Bhattacharjee was the VP of Yahoo Search Technology (YST). He returns to Yahoo, together with former key members of the YST and Hadoop teams — Tim Converse, Christian Kunz, Sameer Paranjpye, and Karthik Krishnamurthy.

Jay Rossiter (SVP, Cloud Platform Group): As a technologist, there are rare moments in your career when you get to be a fundamental part of the transformation of one of the most iconic companies on the Internet.

The Jybe app has been closed.

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