Facebook to Acquire FriendFeed
Facebook has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, an online sharing service. As
part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and
FriendFeed's four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook's
engineering and product teams.
"Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to
share and connect with their friends," said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed
co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched
Google Maps. "We can't wait to join the team and bring many of the
innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million
users around the world."
Taylor
and Paul Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev
Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for
products like Gmail and Google Maps.
"Since
I first tried FriendFeed, I've admired their team for creating such a
simple and elegant service for people to share information," said Mark
Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "As this shows, our culture
continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to
build things quickly that lots of people will use."
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees.
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as
the teams determine the longer term plans for the product, says Facebook
in a statement released Monday (Aug. 10).
Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.
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