[porterhaney]

This acquisition reminds me a lot of Hunch. It's a similar size in terms of team + cost per team member. $2-3M/employee. And, Hunch's core tech seems to have gone into the eBay homepage, which is what Sarah is proposing Yahoo do with Rockmelt.

[zhivota]

That's true of Hunch at eBay, though it should also be noted that the new homepage was originally spearheaded by Milo employees, an acquired startup that also is creating new products in eBay (read analyst day reports and look for "eBay Local" for hints).

[darkarmani]

Why can't you poach employees for less than $2M each?

[pchristensen]

See nostrademons comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6149858