I wished people would use the word 'acquires' to describe those situations where a succesful start-up is bought by a larger company, not as a fig-leaf for dismembering a not-so-hot start-up or worse.
Congrats to the CEO of Ruba for looking out for his team enough to find them jobs before dissolving the company.
I'd jump on this guys next gig in a heartbeat.
There's another ex-Googler "local guide" startup at http://www.nextstop.com/. I wonder how they feel about this.
... ruba will be closing shortly.
/cynical
Good for them! But it doesn't say what will happen with their service.
Ruba is not acquired by google. The Ruba team is just working with iGoogle team.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/google-acquires-travel-guid...