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The Year in Facebook Acquisitions 2012
Facebook bought or “acqui-hired” more than a dozen companies this year, including Instagram, the largest acquisition in the company’s history. Like last year, bringing on mobile talent was clearly a...
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Facebook roundup: mobile app, lobbying, HQ expansion, mental health and more
Facebook finishes 2012 as No. 1 mobile app in U.S. – Facebook edged Google Maps as the top mobile app in the U.S. at the end of 2012, according to ComScore. Google’s app had been No. 1 until October...
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Unified acquires PageLever
Enterprise marketing technology company Unified today announced it has purchased Facebook analytics platform PageLever. PageLever’s seven employees will join Unified full-time in the company’s San...
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Facebook agrees to acquire Microsoft Atlas
Facebook today announced that it has agreed to buy Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft. Atlas is a platform that advertisers and agencies use to plan, manage, track and optimize their digital...
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Facebook hires small team behind social startup Storylane
Storytelling platform Storylane today announced that it is shutting down and the team is joining Facebook as part of a talent acquisition. Facebook is not buying the Storylane product. Storylane is a...
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Facebook acquires Hot Studio design team
Facebook today announced that it has acquired Hot Studio, a design agency based in San Francisco and New York, to build new tools for brands and businesses on the social network. According to...
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Facebook acquires stealth startup Osmeta
Facebook has acquired stealth software startup Osmeta, TechCrunch reports today. The deal was apparently completed last month. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the acquisition, but did not offer any...
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Facebook hires team behind cross-platform mobile game framework Spaceport
Facebook has hired the team behind Spaceport, a framework for developers to publish their games across platforms, a company spokesperson tells us. Spaceport also announced the news today on its...
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Facebook acquires Parse to offer mobile backend services for developers
Facebook today announced an agreement to acquire Parse, a cloud-based platform providing tools for mobile app developers. Parse offers backend services, data storage, social integration tools and other...
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With acquisition of Atlas complete, Facebook looks to improve ad measurement
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shared today on the company’s first quarter earnings call that its acquisition of Atlas from Microsoft closed last week and that she welcomed the team to Facebook today....
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Facebook acquires startup Mobile Technologies, maker of mobile translation...
Facebook’s mobile push is getting stronger, as the company acquired Mobile Technologies, the team behind mobile (iOS and Android) voice translation app Jibbigo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
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Facebook acquires mobile data startup Onavo, branches into Israel
Mark Zuckerberg’s goal to make the world more open and connected got a bit of a boost when Facebook on Sunday acquired Onavo, a mobile application data startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto,...
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Facebook SPMD Brand Networks acquires PMD Optimal
Brand Networks, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, announced recently that it has acquired Optimal — a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer — in an effort to expand Brand Networks’...
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Lynx Equity acquires Facebook PMD Majestic Media
Majestic Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in apps, was recently acquired by Toronto-based private equity firm Lynx Equity. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Majestic Media helps...
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Facebook acquires SportStream
Not long after entering a partnership with sports second-screen developer SportStream, Facebook decided to acquire the company. Both sides announced recently that SportStream will join Facebook. Terms...
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Facebook closes acquisition of Little Eye Labs
Facebook has officially acquired Bangalore-based startup Little Eye Labs, the company’s website announced. Little Eye Labs makes a tool that can track and fix performance issues with Android apps. The...
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Facebook acquires Branch, will form ‘Conversations’
Facebook has acquired link-sharing service Branch, according to the company’s co-founder, Josh Miller. The Verge reports that the deal is worth about $15 million. Branch makes it easier for friends to...
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Facebook acquires WhatsApp for $16 billion
Facebook may have failed in its bid to acquire popular messaging app Snapchat, but the social network announced Wednesday that it has closed a deal to buy WhatsApp for roughly $16 billion. Mark...
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WhatsApp: Facebook’s springboard to international influence
WhatsApp may not be well known to U.S. users, but make no mistake: Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of the messaging app is a huge deal. WhatsApp is largely popular internationally, and as Mark...
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What others are saying about Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp
When Facebook acquired internationally-popular messenger WhatsApp for a total of $19 billion, the tech world was abuzz with reaction, jubilation and speculation. We talked with several analysts and...
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