Acquisitions
- An act of purchase of one company by another.This post will show you
that how many companies mergers and acquisitions by facebook. This post
is fully based upon data of Wikipedia. Each acquisition is for the
respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified.
Acquisitions:
Acquisition date
|
Company
|
Business
|
Location
|
Value (USD)
|
Used as / Integrated with
|
August 23, 2005
|
facebook.com domain name
|
AboutFace
|
Boston
|
$200,000
|
name change from Thefacebook.com
|
July 19, 2007
|
Parakey
|
Offline applications/Web OS
|
Mountain View, CA
|
Facebook Mobile
| |
June 23, 2008
|
ConnectU
|
Social networking
|
Cambridge, MA
|
$31m
|
(Court settlement)
|
August 10, 2009
|
FriendFeed
|
Social networking aggregator
|
Mountain View, CA
|
$47.5m
| |
February 19, 2010
|
Octazen
|
Contact importer
|
Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur
|
Friend Finder
| |
March 2, 2010
|
Divvyshot
|
Photo management
|
San Francisco
|
Facebook Photos
| |
May 13, 2010
|
Friendster patents
|
Intellectual property/Patents
|
Mountain View, CA / Kuala Lumpur
|
$40m
| |
May 26, 2010
|
ShareGrove
|
Private conversations/Forums
|
San Mateo, CA
|
Facebook Groups
| |
July 8, 2010
|
Nextstop
|
Travel recommendations
|
San Francisco
|
$2.5m
| |
August 15, 2010
|
Chai Labs
|
Internet applications
|
Mountain View, CA
|
$10m
| |
August 20, 2010
|
Hot Potato
|
Check-ins/Status updates
|
Brooklyn
|
~10m
|
Facebook Places
|
October 29, 2010
|
Drop.io
|
File hosting and sharing
|
Dumbo, Brooklyn
|
~10m
| |
November 15, 2010
|
FB.com domain name
|
American Farm Bureau Federation
|
Washington, D.C.
|
$8.5m
|
—
|
January 25, 2011
|
Rel8tion
|
Mobile advertising
|
Seattle
|
undisclosed
| |
March 2, 2011
|
Beluga
|
Group messaging
|
Palo Alto, CA
|
undisclosed
|
Facebook Messenger
|
March 20, 2011
|
Snaptu
|
Mobile App Developer
|
Israel
|
$60–70m
|
Mobile
|
March 24, 2011
|
RecRec
|
Computer Vision
|
San Francisco
|
undisclosed
| |
April 27, 2011
|
DayTum
|
Information graphics
|
SoHo, New York City
| ||
June 9, 2011
|
Sofa
|
Software design
|
Amsterdam
| ||
June 9, 2011
|
MailRank
|
Email prioritization
|
New York
| ||
August 2, 2011
|
Push Pop Press
|
Digital publishing
|
Undisclosed
| ||
October 10, 2011
|
Friend.ly
|
Social casual Q&A service app
|
Mountain View, California
|
Undisclosed
| |
November 8, 2011
|
Strobe
|
HTML 5 mobile apps, SproutCore
|
San Francisco
|
Undisclosed
|
Mobile engineering team
|
December 2, 2011
|
Gowalla
|
Location Based Service
|
Austin
| ||
April 9, 2012
|
Instagram
|
Photo sharing
|
San Francisco
|
$1b
| |
April 13, 2012
|
Tagtile
|
Customer loyalty app
|
San Francisco, CA
|
Undisclosed
| |
May 5, 2012
|
Glancee
|
Social discovery platform
|
San Francisco, CA
|
Undisclosed
| |
May 15, 2012
|
Lightbox
|
Photo sharing
|
London
|
Undisclosed
| |
May 21, 2012
|
Karma
|
Social Gifting
|
USA
|
Undisclosed
| |
June 18, 2012
|
Face.com
|
Face Recognition Platform
|
Tel Aviv, Israel
|
$100m
| |
July 14, 2012
|
Spool
|
Mobile bookmarking and sharing content
|
San Francisco, CA
|
Undisclosed
|
Mobile engineering team
|
July 20, 2012
|
Acrylic Software
|
RSS app Pulp + secure database app Wallet
|
Vancouver
|
Undisclosed
|
Facebook's design team
|
August 24, 2012
|
Threadsy
|
Threadsy is a social aggregator, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo
|
San Francisco, CA
|
Undisclosed
|
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