Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tippr.com Buys FanForce

Seattle-based group buying site Tippr.com, the latest startup run by Martin Tobias, said this morning that it has acquired FanForce, a Texas-based daily deals site. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tippr said that it has added FanForce's founders to its team, including adding Samy Aboel-Nil as President/COO, Dane Knecht as VP of Product Management, and John Whitmarsh as CFO. Tippr is the result of the acquisition of a number of patents from Vulcan Capital and Microsoft'a Paul Allen by Tobias, covering group buying.