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Reunion.com Buys People Search Engine Wink.com

alarmClock  Nov 04 08

LA-bases social network Reunion.com has bought people search engine Wink. No financial terms were disclosed. Reunion.com has raised over $27M in VC funding from firms like Oak Investment Partners. Wink had raised roughly $6M from Cambrian Ventures and Greylock Partners. Reunion.com says that a new brand and Web site will launch early next year. Reunion says it is profitable and is growing at a rate of more than 1.6M new members per month. From the outside it seems like Reunion is facing a tough long-term environment as social network consolidates around Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn or regionally around Bebo in the UK, Orkut in Brazil, etc. Full story...

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