Six Apart Buys Pownce

Six Apart Ltd., a San Francisco-based provider of blogging software and services, has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce. The actual Pownce platform will soon be shutdown, with the company’s technology and team incorporated into Six Apart. No financial terms were disclosed. Six Apart has raised around $22 million in VC funding from August Capital, Focus Ventures and Intel Capital. www.sixapart.com

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