Amazon has acquired popular deal-a-day website Woot. The announcement was made on the Woot Blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Woot will remain an independent, autonomous entity, much like Zappos when it was acquired last year by the online shopping giant.
Here is the full text from Woot’s announcement of the deal:“Holy crap! Woot has signed an agreement with Amazon – yes, the Amazon – to become an independent subsidiary of the ecommerce colossus. Woot HQ will remain in Carrollton, Texas, and will operate as autonomously as other Amazon companies like Zappos and Audible. More details forthcoming after we pick our eyeballs up off of the floor. Anybody see where Lefty rolled off to?”And now the full letter from Matt Rutledge, Woot CEO, to employees. In typical Woot fashion, it’s off-the-wall and hilarious:
