Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

by Abdo on August 10, 2009

Hi All,

That might be interesting to Social Media enthusiasts, from Facebook press release:

Facebook Agrees to Acquire Sharing Service FriendFeed

PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 10, 2009 — Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. 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."

Continue reading Facebook press release: http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=116581

FriendFeed Blog: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009/08/friendfeed-accepts-facebook-friend.html

Mashable Comment: http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/

- Abdo

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