On August 10, Facebook said it had acquired FriendFeed, the Mountain View (California) social aggregation service founded by Google alumni Bret Taylor and Jim Norris in 2008.
The deal, which The Wall Street Journal reported to be valued at nearly US$50 million in cash and stock, gives Facebook top talent and advanced technology in an area many see as the next great frontier on the Web: real-time search.
This month also a book released on the popular social networking site titled “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal“.
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