Yahoo buys ‘user-generated contest’ site bix

Steve Safran November 18th, 2006

Yahoo has purchased the polling/contest site bix, a company all of nine months old. A quick trawl through bix (which, I admit, I had never even heard of) finds it offers users the opportunity to set up contests and competitions. The company’s founder says these are “user-generated contests, not just user-generated content.” Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Still — nine months… (WaPo free sub. req.)