Posts Tagged Acquisition

Facebook Acquired FriendFeed

Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. Taylor and 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. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

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. 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. Read full story »

MicroYahooSoft! – Microsoft Going to Sandwich Yahoo!

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Microsoft’s proposal to acquire Yahoo! at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock was the hot discussion for this week in the blogosphere. There have been many discussions on suggested new name for the combined Yahoo! and Microsoft – here, here and here. Some of the Flickr users are even staging online protests … Read full story »