Xobni
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Xobni provided email and contact-management tools for platforms including Outlook and Gmail.
02 / Xobni FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Yahoo incorporated contact-search and composition features into Yahoo Mail and discontinued Xobni’s standalone products. The supported explanation is integration following acquisition.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Acquired by Yahoo
Yahoo acquired Xobni; customers initially retained access to its products.
- Standalone products closed
On 2 July Yahoo announced Xobni products were closing after features had been integrated into Yahoo Mail.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Yahoo acquired Xobni
- 02
Functions integrated into Yahoo Mail
- 03
Standalone products discontinued