Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

As first reported by TechCrunch, social-networking giant Facebook acquired online-sharing service FriendFeed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Facebook said in a release that all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.

FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor wrote on the company blog that the site and its application-program interface would continue to operate normally, adding:

We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle …

The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team.

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