Insider Google pays $18 million to shutter Apture, CloudFlare clones it in 12 hours Even if you’ve never heard of Apture, you’ve probably used the company’s products before. If you’ve ever been on a site where you copied some text, and then had a box pop up that offered to show you context related to what you’ve just copied, that’s Apture. It’s been a huge hit with Web publishers and Google seems
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