Yahoo Acquires Self-destructing Mobile Messaging App Blink

(RTTNews) - Blink, a mobile messaging application that lets users share self-destructing messages, has been acquired by Yahoo Inc (YHOO). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The app will be shut down in the coming weeks so that Blink's seven-person team can work on Yahoo's "smart communication" products.

This includes former Google employees Kevin Stephens and Michelle Norgan, who founded Meh Labs, the start-up that created Blink.

Blink made the announcement on its website, saying "We're excited to announce that as of May 13, 2014 Blink is joining Yahoo! We built Blink because we believe everyone should be free to show the same honesty and spontaneity in their online conversations as they can in person. We look forward to the possibilities that will come from bringing the Blink vision to Yahoo....... In the next few weeks, we will be shutting down Blink for both Android and iOS."