List of mergers and acquisitions by Facebook

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Facebook is a social networking company. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Facebook and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Facebook's headquarters is in the United States. If the Facebook service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here.

Facebook has acquired 10 companies with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Instagram. It also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held by rival Friendster. The majority of the companies acquired by Facebook are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook has also made investments in LuckyCal and Wildfire Interactive.

Most of Facebook's acquisitions have been 'talent acquisitions' and acquired products are often shut-down. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people... In order to have a really entrepreneurial culture one of the key things is to make sure we're recruiting the best people. One of the ways to do this is to focus on acquiring great companies with great founders."[1] The Instagram acquisition, announced on 2012-04-09, appears to be the first exception to this pattern.[2]

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Acquisitions [edit]

# Acquisition date Company Business Location Value (USD) Related to Used as / Integrated with Talent acquired Refs
1 02005-08-23August 23, 2005 facebook.com domain name AboutFace Boston $200,000 — name change from Thefacebook.com — [3][4]
2 02007-07-19July 19, 2007 Parakey Offline applications/Web OS Mountain View, CA Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital Facebook Mobile Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt [5]
3 02008-06-23June 23, 2008 ConnectU Social networking Cambridge, MA $31m i2Hub (Court settlement) None [6][7]
4 02009-08-10August 10, 2009 FriendFeed Social networking aggregator Mountain View, CA $47.5m Benchmark Capital, ex-Google Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others [8]
5 02010-02-19February 19, 2010 Octazen Contact importer Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur Friend Finder 2 engineers (remote workers) [9]
6 02010-03-02March 2, 2010 Divvyshot Photo management San Francisco Y Combinator, AngelList Facebook Photos Sam Odio, Paul Carduner [10]
7 02010-05-13May 13, 2010 Friendster patents Intellectual property/Patents Mountain View, CA / Kuala Lumpur $40m None [11]
8 02010-05-26May 26, 2010 ShareGrove Private conversations/Forums San Mateo, CA Elm Street Ventures Facebook Groups Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff [12]
9 02010-07-08July 8, 2010 Nextstop Travel recommendations San Francisco $2.5m ex-Google Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham [13]
10 02010-08-15August 15, 2010 Chai Labs Internet applications Mountain View, CA $10m Merus Capital, ex-Google Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others [14]
11 02010-08-20August 20, 2010 Hot Potato Check-ins/Status updates Brooklyn ~10m RRE Ventures Facebook Places Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others [15]
12 02010-10-29October 29, 2010 Drop.io File hosting and sharing Dumbo, Brooklyn ~10m RRE Ventures Sam Lessin [16]
13 02010-11-15November 15, 2010 FB.com domain name American Farm Bureau Federation Washington, D.C. $8.5m — — — [17]
14 02011-01-25January 25, 2011 Rel8tion Mobile advertising Seattle undisclosed Peter Wilson [18]
15 02011-03-02March 2, 2011 Beluga Group messaging Palo Alto, CA undisclosed Facebook Messenger Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport [19]
16 02011-03-20March 20, 2011 Snaptu Mobile App Developer Israel $60–70m Mobile [20]
17 02011-03-24March 24, 2011 RecRec Computer Vision San Francisco undisclosed Dogpatch Labs [21]
18 02011-04-27April 27, 2011 DayTum Information graphics SoHo, New York City Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case [22]
19 02011-06-09June 9, 2011 Sofa Software design Amsterdam Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk [23]
20 02011-06-09June 9, 2011 MailRank Email prioritization New York Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount [24]
21 02011-08-02August 2, 2011 Push Pop Press Digital publishing Undisclosed Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris [25][26][27]
22 02011-10-10October 10, 2011 Friend.ly Social casual Q&A service app Mountain View, California Undisclosed [28][29][30]
23 02011-11-08November 8, 2011 Strobe HTML 5 mobile apps, SproutCore San Francisco Undisclosed Mobile engineering team Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees [31][32]
24 02011-12-02December 2, 2011 Gowalla Location Based Service Austin
25 02012-04-09April 9, 2012 Instagram Photo sharing San Francisco $1b
26 02012-04-13April 13, 2012 Tagtile Customer loyalty app San Francisco, CA Undisclosed Tagtile's founders [33][34]
27 May 5, 2012 Glancee Social discovery platform San Francisco, CA Undisclosed Three co-founders [35][36]


28 02012-05-15May 15, 2012 Lightbox.com Photo sharing London Undisclosed Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees [37]
29 02012-05-21May 21, 2012 Karma Social Gifting USA Undisclosed Facebook Gifts Lee Linden, Ben Lewis [38]
30 02012-06-18June 18, 2012 Face.com Face Recognition Platform Tel Aviv, Israel $100m [39][40]
31 02012-07-14July 14, 2012 Spool Mobile bookmarking and sharing content San Francisco, CA Undisclosed Mobile engineering team Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees [41]
32 02012-07-20July 20, 2012 Acrylic Software RSS app Pulp + secure database app Wallet Vancouver Undisclosed Facebook's design team Two employees [42]
33 02012-08-24August 24, 2012 Threadsy Threadsy is a social aggregator, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo San Francisco, CA Undisclosed [43]
34 02013-02-28February 28, 2013 Atlas Atlas Advertiser Suite Seattle, Washington less than $100 million [44]
35 02013-03-14March 14, 2013 Hot Studio Design agency New York, NY, San Francisco, CA [45]
36 02013-04-25April 25, 2013 Parse Mobile app backends San Francisco, CA [46]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion". Retrieved 2012-04-04. 
  3. ^ Williams, Chris (October 1, 2007). "Facebook wins Manx battle for face-book.com". The Register (London). Retrieved June 13, 2008. |
  4. ^ "thefacebook.com becomes facebook.com for $200,000". Timeline of Facebook.com. Xtimeline.com. August 23, 2005. 
  5. ^ "Facebook buys Parakey". Gigaom. 2007-07-19. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  6. ^ "Judge Blocks Rival's Effort to Learn Value of Facebook's Stock". New York Law Journal. 2010-03-17. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
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  8. ^ "Facebook Acquires FriendFeed". TechCrunch. 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  9. ^ "Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?". TechCrunch. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  10. ^ "Facebook Buys Up Divvyshot To Make Facebook Photos Even Better". TechCrunch. 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  11. ^ "Facebook buys friendster patents for 40m". GigaOm. 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  12. ^ "Facebook Acquires ShareGrove". Mashable. 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  13. ^ "Facebook acquires social travel-recommendation site Nextstop". TechCrunch. 2010-07-08. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
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  15. ^ "Facebook acquires Hot Potato". Mashable. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
  16. ^ "Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Nabs Sam Lessin". TechCrunch. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2010-10-30. 
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  19. ^ "Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Service Beluga In A Talent AND Technology Deal". TechCrunch. 2011-03-01. Retrieved 2011-03-01. 
  20. ^ "Confirmed: Facebook Acquires Snaptu (For An Estimated $60 – $70 Million)". TechCrunch. 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-20. 
  21. ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/facebook-acq-hires-daytum/
  22. ^ "Daytum's Dataviz Wizards, Nick Felton and Ryan Case, Join Facebook". DesignTaxi. 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2011-04-27. 
  23. ^ "Facebook Buys Sofa, A Software Design Team That Will Help Make Facebook More Beautiful". TechCrunch. 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-06-09. 
  24. ^ "Facebook buys e-mail prioritiser MailRank". FirstPost. 2011-11-16. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
  25. ^ Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris (2 August 2011). "Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook". Push Pop Pres. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  26. ^ Reisinger, Don (2 August 2011). "Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press". CNET. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
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  28. ^ Protalinski, Emil (11 October 2011). "Facebook acquires Q&A service Friend.ly". ZDNet. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  29. ^ Gaudin, Sharon (10 October 2011). "Facebook acquires start-up friend.ly". Computerworld. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  30. ^ Hernandez, Barbara E. (13 October 2011). "Facebook Acquires Startup Friend.ly". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  31. ^ Wauters, Robin (8 November 2011). "Facebook Acquires Team Behind HTML5 App Platform Strobe; SproutCore Lives On". TechCrunch. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  32. ^ Oreskovic, Alexi (8 November 2011). "Facebook hires mobile tech developer team". Reuters. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  33. ^ MacMillian, Douglas (14 April 2012). "Facebook Acquires Team Behind Customer-Loyalty App Tagtile". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  34. ^ The Tagtile Team (12 April 2012). "We are joining Facebook!". Tagtile. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  35. ^ Protalinski, Emil (5 May 2012). "Facebook acquires location-based social discovery startup Glancee". ZDNet. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  36. ^ DesMarais, Christina (5 May 2012). "Facebook Acquisition Points to Future of More Phone Tracking". PCWorld. Retrieved 5 May 2012. 
  37. ^ "Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears". 
  38. ^ "Facebook stumbles, buys startup Karma". 
  39. ^ Levy, Ari (19 June 2012). "Facebook acquires Face.com - stock up 4.7 percent". San Francisco Gate. Retrieved 19 June 2012. 
  40. ^ Gil (18 June 2012). "Awesome News – Facebook Acquires Face.com". Face.com. Retrieved 19 June 2012. 
  41. ^ "Facebook acquires mobile-bookmarking service Spool". CNET. 14 July 2012. 
  42. ^ "Facebook acquires Mac, iOS developer Acrylic Software". CNET. 20 July 2012. 
  43. ^ "Facebook Acquires Threadsy, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo". Techcrunch. 24 August 2012. 
  44. ^ "Facebook Confirms It Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite From Microsoft To Close The Ad Spend Loop". Techcrunch. 28 February 2013. 
  45. ^ "Welcoming the Talented Team Behind Hot Studio". "Facebook". 29 March 2013. 
  46. ^ "Welcoming Parse to Facebook". "Facebook". 25 April 2013. 

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