Google Acquires Israeli Startup Kifi

July 13, 2016 | Israeli-American link management startup Kifi announced in a blog post on Medium that it’s being acquired by Google, for its Google Spaces team. Kifi allows users to collect, analyze, and collaborate on links from across the Internet, will shut down in the coming weeks, the company said. Terms of the deal weren’t shared and it isn’t clear how many employees are joining Google. Kifi, from FortyTwo Inc., was founded by Dan Blumenfeld and Eishay Smith in 2012 and was based in Mountain View, California.