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Reunion, a Los Angeles based social networking and people search service, has acquired a rival service, Wink. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Reunion has raised over $27 million from Oak Investment Partners, whereas Wink bagged $6 million from Cambrian Ventures and Greylock Partners. Due to this deal an entirely new site will be launched early next year where users will be able to search people from more than 700 million profiles that span the social networks, online communities and other proprietary sources.
Wink had integrated it search technology with social networks like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Yahoo!360, Xanga, and Twitter.
“This deal is the next step in our company’s evolution to bring a groundbreaking mix of people search services to consumers across multiple online networks,” said Jeffrey Tinsley, founder and chief executive officer of Reunion.com. “With five billion searches across the Web each month, the people search vertical is bigger than any other. Our goal is to create the definitive people search service that creates a single source for connecting with people. In the coming months, we’ll work closely with Wink to combine our company strengths, integrate best-of-breed technologies, and offer our users the most robust service available to find people.”
