Google Acquires Superpod

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Google secretly acquires Q&A startup Superpod
 By Maria Deutscher  in SiliconAngle

Google LLC usually publicizes its acquisitions, but there are exceptions.

The search giant has secretly bought a startup called Superpod Inc. that developed a crowdsourced question-and-answer app in the same vein as Quora. Axios broke the news this morning, citing an unnamed source, and a Google spokesperson confirmed the deal.

The tipster told the publication that the search giant paid less than “less than $60 million” for Superpod. Even if the actual deal size was only a fraction of that figure, it still represents an impressive exit for the Palo Alto, California-based startup. Superpod launched its app into private beta only about a year ago and didn’t attract much in the way of public attention during its brief run.

The startup shut down the service in September, which is presumably when the acquisition was signed. Superpod co-founders Sophia Yang and William Li hinted at the deal in a note still up on the startup’s website.  ... "