Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates. Obviously Facebook has already built out some of Friend

[mlhshino]

"$47.5M in Cash and Stock"

[Mash]

「Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed」

[georgew]

twitterどーなんのかねぇ...

[llcheesell]

http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009/08/friendfeed-accepts-facebook-friend.html

[tsupo]

And so begins the next step in Facebook’s assault on Twitter.