Four years ago, Christian Reber sold his company, makers of the Wunderlist productivity app, to Microsoft for somewhere between $100 million and $200 million.
Now, in an unusual move, Reber is pleading with the company to let him buy the app back — so he can save it from being shut down for good.
Microsoft acquired the popular to-do list app in 2015 at a time when it was furiously scooping up productivity apps in order to bolster its own mobile softwareThe Wall Street Journal reported at the time that the deal was valued somewhere between $100 million and $200 million. But, in 2017, Microsoft announced plans to retire Wunderlist in favor of its own Microsoft-branded to-do list app. Read more…
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