JSchneier
07-26-2010, 09:00 AM
The Technical
Today we announced signing a definitive agreement to acquire the technical assets from Lefora, to consolidate CrowdGather’s market leadership in the hosted forum market. The CrowdGather network combined with Lefora’s hosted forum properties will offer a search engine and social media-friendly network of forum communities that serves over 90 million monthly pageviews. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction, with key employees of Lefora working with CrowdGather’s team for the technical integration.
Why Lefora?
Lefora is to forums what WordPress or Blogger is to blogs. It allows users who are not tech savvy the opportunity to easily start their own customizable forum community. Lefora also supports new media capabilities not found in many free forum solutions, such as the ability to embed YouTube videos. In addition it has a feature where it will show the most actively discussed topics or the most recently posted topics on the font page.
By making the creation of forums more accessible and by integrating feature sets that make forums more relevant, Lefora has become a large and steadily growing company. As of today Lefora boasts over 100,000 communities.
About Lefora
Lefora was founded by a core team of Internet and games pioneers who got fed up with the lack of features available in online forums. Lefora’s mission is to transform one of the largest and most active parts of the Internet, forums, by letting anybody create their own forum in under a minute. Lefora is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, CA, founded in 2008.
Read More: TechCrunch Article (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/forum-site-lefora-gobbled-up-by-crowdgather/)
Today we announced signing a definitive agreement to acquire the technical assets from Lefora, to consolidate CrowdGather’s market leadership in the hosted forum market. The CrowdGather network combined with Lefora’s hosted forum properties will offer a search engine and social media-friendly network of forum communities that serves over 90 million monthly pageviews. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction, with key employees of Lefora working with CrowdGather’s team for the technical integration.
Why Lefora?
Lefora is to forums what WordPress or Blogger is to blogs. It allows users who are not tech savvy the opportunity to easily start their own customizable forum community. Lefora also supports new media capabilities not found in many free forum solutions, such as the ability to embed YouTube videos. In addition it has a feature where it will show the most actively discussed topics or the most recently posted topics on the font page.
By making the creation of forums more accessible and by integrating feature sets that make forums more relevant, Lefora has become a large and steadily growing company. As of today Lefora boasts over 100,000 communities.
About Lefora
Lefora was founded by a core team of Internet and games pioneers who got fed up with the lack of features available in online forums. Lefora’s mission is to transform one of the largest and most active parts of the Internet, forums, by letting anybody create their own forum in under a minute. Lefora is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, CA, founded in 2008.
Read More: TechCrunch Article (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/forum-site-lefora-gobbled-up-by-crowdgather/)