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October 3, 2012 09:00 pm GMT

Startup Weekend Acquires Local Events Newsletter Provider StartupDigest; Product Gets Spun Off As GroupTie

startupweekend-logoStartup Weekend, the organization behind the weekend-long hackathons encouraging entrepreneurship, has acquired local events resource and email newsletter provider StartupDigest for an undisclosed sum. StartupDigest currently reaches over 230,000 subscribers across 99 cities and 43 countries around the world. Two of StartupDigest's core team members, Editorial Director Jessica Ford and co-founder Brendan McManus, will join Startup Weekend following the acquisition. Meanwhile, the software product used to power the StartupDigest service will be transitioned into a new product known as GroupTie.

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