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LastPass Acquires Xmarks!

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: December 12, 2010
  • Reading Time: 1 min
  • Word Count: 118 words

In our efforts to bring you expanded, go-anywhere access to your data, weā€™re happy to announce that LastPass recently acquired Xmarks! Xmarks is a popular browser add-on that syncs bookmarks across all of your computers and smartphones. Just like LastPass, Xmarks can be installed for free on your browsers to give you easy access to your bookmarked sites. Xmarks now also offers a Premium version with bookmark support on your iPhone and Android, as well as advanced features and priority support. Sign up now to take advantage of the special discount with a dual-Premium subscription. ...

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Itā€™s Alive: Xmarks Back From the Brink

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: November 6, 2010
  • Reading Time: 4 min
  • Word Count: 757 words

Mashable: It looks like cross-browser, bookmark syncing service Xmarks wonā€™t be going out of business after all. Just over a month after announcing that the service would be closing its doors and shutting down operations come January 2011, the company has announced that it is in the final stages of selling Xmarks to a new owner who is focused on keeping the tool running smoothly. Xmarks announced the news on its official blog, noting that exact details canā€™t be revealed just yet, but that the service is alive and ā€œthings are on track for a ā€˜new and improvedā€™ Xmarks.ā€ The Xmarks blog says that the Xmarks service will evolve into offering free and premium components. Details about what will be included in the premium offering are promised to come at a later date. ...

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Xmarks service ends January 2011

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: September 30, 2010
  • Reading Time: 1 min
  • Word Count: 53 words

Xmarks will be shutting down free browser synchronization services on January 10, 2011. For details on how to transition to recommended alternatives, consult this page. For the full story behind the Xmarks shutdown, please read their blog post. Itā€™s a sad story to me! Here I found a good article to read: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/no-more-xmarks-no/192

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