Yahoo Acquires Bignoggins

Yahoo has announced that they’ve acquired Bignoggins Productions, a one-man iPhone development shop which had previously built a handful of fairly popular Fantasy Sports mobile apps. Up until today, Bignoggins had at least two apps in the store: Fantasy Monster ($5), and Draft Monster ($3). Both apps were built as all-in-one tools, meant to let Fantasy Sports nuts manage their pretend football/baseball/basketball/hockey teams across Yahoo, ESPN, and NFL’s competing services.

The bad news: as part of the acquisition, all of Bignoggins’ apps were immediately pulled from both the App Store and Google Play. The better news: in a blog post on his own site, Bignoggin’s founder (and sole full-timer) Jerry Shen says that the tech he’s built so far will soon be baked into Yahoo’s official Fantasy Products products.