Facebook Paid Nearly $50 Million for FriendFeed

August 10th, 2009 admin

We’ve learned a lot about Facebook’s deal to acquire FriendFeed since news first broke early this afternoon. In fact, as we reported earlier, the two companies discussed joining forces as far back as 2007, shortly after FriendFeed launched


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