http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178765/Amazon.com_to_acquire_shopping_site_Woot?taxonomyId=16

IDG News Service - Amazon.com plans to acquire online discount retailer Woot.com, the smaller site announced Wednesday.

Woot, which offers one item for sale each day, didn't disclose the terms of the deal. The company will continue to operate independently from its Carrollton, Texas, headquarters, Woot CEO Matt Rutledge said in a letter to employees published on the site.

"We plan to continue to run Woot the way we have always run Woot -- with a wall of ideas and a dartboard," Rutledge wrote. "From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture."

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