Thursday, September 23, 2010

LinkedIn Buys ChoiceVendor

Mountain View-based LinkedIn said today that it has acquired San Francisco-based ChoiceVendor, a provider of ratings and reviews of business to business service providers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. ChoiceVendor was founded by Yan-David Erlich and Rama Ranganath. Erlich was an EIR at Battery Ventures, and previously founded Mogad/Social/IM. Ranganath was previously at Google. Both founders have joined LinkedIn as part of the acquisition.