Facebook's Newest Acqu-Hire: Spaceport

Facebook's mobile efforts got a push recently as the company acquired the team behind Spaceport, which creates the technology behind mobile games and applications, as well as JavaScript, HTML 5 and ActionScript. Spaceport will continue to run under co-founder Peter Relan, but the bulk of the team will join Facebook.

Facebook’s mobile efforts got a push recently as the company acquired the team behind Spaceport, which creates the technology behind mobile games and applications, as well as JavaScript, HTML 5 and ActionScript. Spaceport will continue to run under co-founder Peter Relan, but the bulk of the team will join Facebook.

Spaceport Co-Founder Ben Savage posted the news on the company’s blog:

We recruited some amazing people along the way (my awesome team), and have had the chance to work with thousands of talented developers who helped us create Spaceport, as well as BBC who invested in us.

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