Is Facebook Group Texting Coming Soon?

The team at Beluga has sold out to Facebook only months after launching.

Facebook has been trying to serve as a tool for enabling friends keep in touch with each other and today the company appears to be expanding such functionality through the acquisition of Beluga, a group texting product.

While not known beyond the incestuous Internet technology world, Beluga was one of the more elegant group texting products, ranking right up there with GroupMe, the current leader in the space. While we don’t know what plans Facebook has for the acquisition, we’d expect the company to integrate with the relatively new messages product (which still isn’t fully rolled out to all users).

One potential use would be a complete overhaul of the mobile version of Facebook messages on iPhone and Android.

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