Square Said To Acquire Team From Struggling Social App Yik Yak (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday April 24, 2017 @12:35PM from the divide-and-conquer dept.

According to Bloomberg, Square has acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak for "less than $3 million." From the report: The payments processor paid less than $3 million for between five and ten of Yik Yak's engineers, according to the person. Atlanta-based Yik Yak's Chief Executive Officer Tyler Droll will not join Square, the person added, asking not to be identified talking about a private matter. Atlanta-based Yik Yak, which started in 2013, created a smartphone app that allowed people to contribute to anonymous chat groups in a narrow geographical radius -- like college campuses.

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The problem with Anonymous Comments.... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-24 12:43 · Score: 0, Troll

The problem with Anonymous comments is it can lead to all of the horrible things that college campuses were upset about. Harassment, hate speech ect.
4Chan is the perfect example of bad behavior of an Anonymous group of people.