Breaking: FriendFeed Acquired by Facebook
Facebook has acquired real-time feed aggregator FriendFeed, Facebook has just announced.
As part of the deal, all 12 employees of FriendFeed, which was founded by ex-Googlers Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh, will join Facebook immediately. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’re guessing it’s mostly or all stock. (FriendFeed had raised $5 million from its founders and Benchmark Capital.)
The acquisition is only the second in Facebook’s history. Two years ago, the company acquired
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