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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta 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 Meta 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. Meta has also made investments in LuckyCal and Wildfire Interactive.
Most of Meta's acquisitions have primarily been "talent acquisitions" and acquired products are often shut-down. In 2009, Meta (as Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a question on Quora, titled "What startups would be good acquisitions for Facebook?", receiving 79 answers.[1][2] He stated in 2010 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."[3] The Instagram acquisition, announced on April 9, 2012, appears to have been the first exception to this pattern.[4] While continuing with a pattern of primarily talent acquisitions, other notable product focused acquisitions include the $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition and the $2 billion Oculus VR acquisition.
Acquisitions
| Number | Company | Location | Acquired on | Acquired for (USD) | Talent acquired | Related to | Used as / integrated with | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facebook.com domain name |  USA, Boston, Massachusetts
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August 23, 2005 |
200,000 | — | — | name change from Thefacebook.com | [5][6] |
| 2 | Parakey | USA, Mountain View, California
|
July 19, 2007 |
— | Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt | Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital | Facebook Mobile | [7] |
| 3 | ConnectU | USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
June 23, 2008 |
31,000,000 | — | i2Hub | (Court settlement) | [8][9] |
| 4 | FriendFeed | USA, Mountain View, California
|
August 10, 2009 |
47,500,000 | Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others | Benchmark Capital, ex-Google | — | [10] |
| 5 | Octazen |  Malaysia, Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur
|
February 19, 2010 |
— | 2 engineers (remote workers) | — | Websluths | [11] |
| 6 | Divvyshot | USA, San Francisco, California
|
March 2, 2010 |
— | Sam Odio, Paul Carduner | Y Combinator, AngelList | Facebook Photos | [12] |
| 7 | Friendster patents | USA, Mountain View, California / Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
|
May 13, 2010 |
40,000,000 | — | — | — | [13] |
| 8 | ShareGrove | USA, San Mateo, California
|
May 26, 2010 |
— | Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff | Elm Street Ventures | Facebook Groups | [14] |
| 9 | Zenbe | USA, New York, NY, New York
|
July 6, 2010 |
— | Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kiefer | — | Facebook Messenger | [15] |
| 10 | Nextstop | USA, San Francisco, California
|
July 8, 2010 |
2,500,000 | Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham | ex-Google | — | [16] |
| 11 | Chai Labs | USA, Mountain View, California
|
August 15, 2010 |
10,000,000 | Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others | Merus Capital, ex-Google | — | [17] |
| 12 | Hot Potato | USA, Brooklyn, New York
|
August 20, 2010 |
~10,000,000 | Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others | RRE Ventures | Facebook Places | [18] |
| 13 | Drop.io | USA, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
|
October 29, 2010 |
~10,000,000 | Sam Lessin | RRE Ventures | — | [19] |
| 14 | FB.com domain name | USA, Washington, D.C.
|
November 15, 2010 |
8,500,000 | — | — | — | [20] |
| 15 | Rel8tion | USA, Seattle, Washington
|
January 25, 2011 |
undisclosed | Peter Wilson | — | — | [21] |
| 16 | Beluga | USA, Palo Alto, California
|
March 2, 2011 |
undisclosed | Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport | — | Facebook Messenger | [22] |
| 17 | Snaptu |  Israel, Tel Aviv
|
March 20, 2011 |
70,000,000 | — | — | — | [23] |
| 18 | RecRec | USA, San Francisco, California
|
March 24, 2011 |
undisclosed | — | Dogpatch Labs | — | [24] |
| 19 | DayTum | USA, SoHo, New York City
|
April 27, 2011 |
undisclosed | Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case | — | — | [25] |
| 20 | Sofa |  Netherlands, Amsterdam
|
June 9, 2011 |
undisclosed | Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk | — | — | [26] |
| 21 | MailRank | USA, New York, New York
|
June 9, 2011 |
undisclosed | Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount | — | — | [27] |
| 22 | Push Pop Press | USA, San Francisco, California
|
August 2, 2011 |
undisclosed | Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris | — | — | [28][29][30] |
| 23 | Friend.ly | USA, Mountain View, California
|
October 10, 2011 |
undisclosed | Co-founder/CEO Ed Baker | — | — | [31][32][33] |
| 24 | Strobe | USA, San Francisco, California
|
November 8, 2011 |
undisclosed | Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [34][35] |
| 25 | Gowalla | USA, Austin, Texas
|
December 2, 2011 |
— | — | — | — | [36] |
| 26 | Caffeinatedmind | USA, California
|
February 20, 2012 |
— | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | USA, San Francisco, California
|
April 9, 2012 |
1,000,000,000 | — | — | — | — | |
| 28 | Tagtile | USA, San Francisco, California
|
April 13, 2012 |
undisclosed | Tagtile's founders | — | — | [37][38] |
| 29 | Glancee | USA, San Francisco, California
|
May 5, 2012 |
undisclosed | Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé | — | Facebook Nearby Friends | [39][40] |
| 30 | Lightbox.com |  UK, London, England
|
May 15, 2012 |
undisclosed | Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees | — | — | [41] |
| 31 | Karma | USA, San Francisco, California
|
May 21, 2012 |
undisclosed | Lee Linden, Ben Lewis | — | Facebook Gifts | [42] |
| 32 | Face.com | Israel, Tel Aviv
|
June 18, 2012 |
100,000,000 | — | — | — | [43][44] |
| 33 | Spool | USA, San Francisco, California
|
July 14, 2012 |
undisclosed | Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [45] |
| 34 | Acrylic Software |  Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
|
July 20, 2012 |
undisclosed | Two employees | — | Facebook's design team | [46] |
| 35 | Threadsy | USA, San Francisco, California
|
August 24, 2012 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [47] |
| 36 | Atlas Solutions | USA, Seattle, Washington
|
February 28, 2013 |
<100,000,000 | — | — | — | [48] |
| 37 | osmeta | USA, Mountain View, CA
|
March 2013 |
— | 17 engineers | — | — | [49] |
| 38 | Storylane (Mixtent) | USA, Palo Alto, CA
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Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms