Facebook Extends A Golden Hand To Sam Lessin

Facebook has acquired the online file sharing company, Drop.io, and Sam Lessin, the company's founder, will be joining the team.

On Friday news broke that Facebook was acquiring the online file sharing company, Drop.io, and that Sam Lessin, the company’s founder, would be joining the team. The announcement was made on the company’s blog. As part of the deal, Facebook is shutting down the Drop.io service.

So why is Facebook shutting down the service completely? While one could speculate that some of the file sharing technology will eventually be integrated into Facebook, the most likely reason is that Facebook doesn’t want to be responsible for managing another code base.

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