Congratulations to our friends over at Mashery: Scott Rafer, Kirsten Spoljaric, Oren Michels, and all the rest of the team. They're the world's best API management company, with clients like Coca Cola, Best Buy, and Intel. Their customers love them so much that this week, Intel actually decided to purchase the whole company! We've been friends with them ever since 2006 when they started operating, and this acquisition is even more confirmation of how great they are!

Both Mashery and Intel are understandably being quiet about the purchase price, but ReadWrite and TechCrunch are stating it's in the range of $180 million! Regardless of the exact amount, our friends at Mashery are sure to be dancing in the streets.

We can only speculate on the scene at the Mashery offices, but we imagine it looks something like this.