Who bought Kiko? Tucows!

Over the past two week there's been an enormous amount of buzz about Kiko, a Web 2.0 calendar whose high-profile sale on eBay for $258,100 sparked speculation about the possible burst of the second dot-com "bubble." What we didn't know until now is who bought Kiko: It's Tucows. Yes, it was the venerable shareware-archive-cum-domain-name-tycoon that bought the start-up's Ajax software, and in a post on the official Tucows blogs, Tucows President and CEO Elliot Noss explains the reasoning behind the purchase. "While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko," writes Noss, "We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has." He also cites Kiko's global user-base, mobile integration, and nice Ajax implementation as adding value to the purchase, and concludes, "we look forward to giving the existing customers an ever-improving user experience and look forward to bringing a great shared calendar to the millions of end-users and thousands of partners who use Tucows services today."

Tags: ajax, calendar, Elliot Noss, ElliotNoss, kiko, tucows, web20