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Facebook buy FriendFeed

ByLaurel Papworth

Interesting news this morning… (computerworld) Facebook may become social network hub with FriendFeed buy Facebook agrees to acquire feed aggregator founded by ex-Google managers Mountain View, Calif-based FriendFeed’s 12 employees will move to Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters and will continue to operate the service as usual until the companies decide on a long-term integration plan,…

Interesting news this morning… (computerworld)

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Facebook may become social network hub with FriendFeed buy

Facebook agrees to acquire feed aggregator founded by ex-Google managers

Mountain View, Calif-based FriendFeed’s 12 employees will move to Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters and will continue to operate the service as usual until the companies decide on a long-term integration plan, according to the companies.

“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, in a statement. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”

… worlds collide?

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