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List of mergers and acquisitions by FacebookFacebook is a social networking company. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Facebook and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Facebook's headquarters is in the United States. If the Facebook service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here. Facebook has acquired 10 companies with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Instagram. It also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held by rival Friendster. The majority of the companies acquired by Facebook are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook has also made investments in LuckyCal and Wildfire Interactive. Most of Facebook's acquisitions have been 'talent acquisitions' and acquired products are often shut-down. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people... In order to have a really entrepreneurial culture one of the key things is to make sure we're recruiting the best people. One of the ways to do this is to focus on acquiring great companies with great founders."[1] The Instagram acquisition, announced on 4/9/2012, appears to be the first exception to this pattern.[2] Acquisitions| # | Acquisition date | Company | Business | Location | Value (USD) | Related to | Used as / Integrated with | Talent acquired | Refs |
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| 1 | 02005-08-23August 23, 2005 | facebook.com domain name | AboutFace | Boston | $200,000 | — | name change from Thefacebook.com | — | [3][4] | | 2 | 02007-07-19July 19, 2007 | Parakey | Offline applications/Web OS | Mountain View, CA | | Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital | Facebook Mobile | Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt | [5] | | 3 | 02008-06-23June 23, 2008 | ConnectU | Social networking | Cambridge, MA | $31m | i2Hub | (Court settlement) | None | [6][7] | | 4 | 02009-08-10August 10, 2009 | FriendFeed | Social networking aggregator | Mountain View, CA | $47.5m | Benchmark Capital, ex-Google | | Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others | [8] | | 5 | 02010-02-19February 19, 2010 | Octazen | Contact importer | Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur | | | Friend Finder | 2 engineers (remote workers) | [9] | | 6 | 02010-03-02March 2, 2010 | Divvyshot | Photo management | San Francisco | | Y Combinator, AngelList | Facebook Photos | Sam Odio, Paul Carduner | [10] | | 7 | 02010-05-13May 13, 2010 | Friendster patents | Intellectual property/Patents | Mountain View, CA / Kuala Lumpur | $40m | | | None | [11] | | 8 | 02010-05-26May 26, 2010 | ShareGrove | Private conversations/Forums | San Mateo, CA | | Elm Street Ventures | Facebook Groups | Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff | [12] | | 9 | 02010-07-08July 8, 2010 | Nextstop | Travel recommendations | San Francisco | $2.5m | ex-Google | | Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham | [13] | | 10 | 02010-08-15August 15, 2010 | Chai Labs | Internet applications | Mountain View, CA | $10m | Merus Capital, ex-Google | | Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others | [14] | | 11 | 02010-08-20August 20, 2010 | Hot Potato | Check-ins/Status updates | Brooklyn | ~10m | RRE Ventures | Facebook Places | Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others | [15] | | 12 | 02010-10-29October 29, 2010 | Drop.io | File hosting and sharing | Dumbo, Brooklyn | ~10m | RRE Ventures | | Sam Lessin | [16] | | 13 | 02010-11-15November 15, 2010 | FB.com domain name | American Farm Bureau Federation | Washington, D.C. | $8.5m | — | — | — | [17] | | 14 | 02011-01-25January 25, 2011 | Rel8tion | Mobile advertising | Seattle | undisclosed | | | Peter Wilson | [18] | | 15 | 02011-03-02March 2, 2011 | Beluga | Group messaging | Palo Alto, CA | undisclosed | | Facebook Messenger | Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport | [19] | | 16 | 02011-03-20March 20, 2011 | Snaptu | Mobile App Developer | Israel | $60–70m | | Mobile | | [20] | | 17 | 02011-03-24March 24, 2011 | RecRec | Computer Vision | San Francisco | undisclosed | Dogpatch Labs | | | [21] | | 18 | 02011-04-27April 27, 2011 | DayTum | Information graphics | SoHo, New York City | | | | Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case | [22] | | 19 | 02011-06-09June 9, 2011 | Sofa | Software design | Amsterdam | | | | Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk | [23] | | 20 | 02011-06-09June 9, 2011 | MailRank | Email prioritization | New York | | | | Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount | [24] | | 21 | 02011-08-02August 2, 2011 | Push Pop Press | Digital publishing | | Undisclosed | | | Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris | [25][26][27] | | 22 | 02011-10-10October 10, 2011 | Friend.ly | Social casual Q&A service app | Mountain View, California | Undisclosed | | | | [28][29][30] | | 23 | 02011-11-08November 8, 2011 | Strobe | HTML 5 mobile apps, SproutCore | San Francisco | Undisclosed | | Mobile engineering team | Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees | [31][32] | | 24 | 02011-12-02December 2, 2011 | Gowalla | Location Based Service | Austin | | | | | | | 25 | 02012-04-09April 9, 2012 | Instagram | Photo sharing | San Francisco | $1b | | | | | | 26 | 02012-04-13April 13, 2012 | Tagtile | Customer loyalty app | San Francisco, CA | Undisclosed | | | Tagtile's founders | [33][34] | | 27 | May 5, 2012 | Glancee | Social discovery platform | San Francisco, CA | Undisclosed | | | Three co-founders | [35][36]
| | 28 | 02012-05-15May 15, 2012 | Lightbox.com | Photo sharing | London | Undisclosed | | | Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees | [37] | | 29 | 02012-05-21May 21, 2012 | Karma | Social Gifting | USA | Undisclosed | | Facebook Gifts | Lee Linden, Ben Lewis | [38] | | 30 | 02012-06-18June 18, 2012 | Face.com | Face Recognition Platform | Tel Aviv, Israel | $100m | | | | [39][40] | | 31 | 02012-07-14July 14, 2012 | Spool | Mobile bookmarking and sharing content | San Francisco, CA | Undisclosed | | Mobile engineering team | Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees | [41] | | 32 | 02012-07-20July 20, 2012 | Acrylic Software | RSS app Pulp + secure database app Wallet | Vancouver | Undisclosed | | Facebook's design team | Two employees | [42] | | 33 | 02012-08-24August 24, 2012 | Threadsy | Threadsy is a social aggregator, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo | San Francisco, CA | Undisclosed | | | | [43] | | 34 | 02013-02-28February 28, 2013 | Atlas | Atlas Advertiser Suite | Seattle, Washington | less than $100 million | | | | [44] |
See also- List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Google
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!
- Mergers and acquisitions
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