List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms explained

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	United States, Boston, Massachusetts	August 23, 2005	200,000	—	—	name change from Thefacebook.com	[5]	[6]
2	Parakey	United States, Mountain View, California	July 19, 2007	—	Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt	Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital	Facebook Mobile	[7]
3	ConnectU	United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts	June 23, 2008	31,000,000	—	i2Hub	(Court settlement)	[8] [9]
4	FriendFeed	United States, 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	United States, San Francisco, California	March 2, 2010	—	Sam Odio, Paul Carduner	Y Combinator, AngelList	Facebook Photos	[12]
7	Friendster patents	United States, Mountain View, California /  Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur	May 13, 2010	40,000,000	—	—	—	[13]
8	ShareGrove	United States, San Mateo, California	May 26, 2010	—	Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff	Elm Street Ventures	Facebook Groups	[14]
9	Zenbe	United States, New York, NY, New York	July 6, 2010	—	Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kiefer	—	Facebook Messenger	[15]
10	Nextstop	United States, San Francisco, California	July 8, 2010	2,500,000	Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham	ex-Google	—	[16]
11	Chai Labs	United States, Mountain View, California	August 15, 2010	10,000,000	Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others	Merus Capital, ex-Google	—	[17]
12	Hot Potato	United States, Brooklyn, New York	August 20, 2010	~10,000,000	Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others	RRE Ventures	Facebook Places	[18]
13	Drop.io	United States, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York	October 29, 2010	~10,000,000	Sam Lessin	RRE Ventures	—	[19]
14	FB.com domain name	United States, Washington, D.C.	November 15, 2010	8,500,000	—	—	—	[20]
15	Rel8tion	United States, Seattle, Washington	January 25, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Peter Wilson	—	—	[21]
16	Beluga	United States, Palo Alto, California	March 2, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport	—	Facebook Messenger	[22]
17	Snaptu	Israel, Tel Aviv	March 20, 2011	70,000,000	—	—	—	[23]
18	RecRec	United States, San Francisco, California	March 24, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	Dogpatch Labs	—	[24]
19	DayTum	United States, SoHo, New York City	April 27, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case	—	—	[25]
20	Sofa	Netherlands, Amsterdam	June 9, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk	—	—	[26]
21	MailRank	United States, New York, New York	June 9, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount	—	—	[27]
22	Push Pop Press	United States, San Francisco, California	August 2, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris	—	—	[28] [29] [30]
23	Friend.ly	United States, Mountain View, California	October 10, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Co-founder/CEO Ed Baker	—	—	[31] [32] [33]
24	Strobe	United States, San Francisco, California	November 8, 2011	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees	—	Mobile engineering team	[34] [35]
25	Gowalla	United States, Austin, Texas	December 2, 2011	Co-founders Josh Williams and Scott Raymond; Keegan Jones, Adam Michela, Sherry Birk, Thorben Primke	—	—	—	—	[36]
26	Caffeinatedmind	United States, California	February 20, 2012	—	—	—	—	—
27	Instagram	United States, San Francisco, California	April 9, 2012	1,000,000,000	—	—	—	—
28	Tagtile	United States, San Francisco, California	April 13, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Tagtile's founders	—	—	[37] [38]
29	Glancee	United States, San Francisco, California	May 5, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé	—	Facebook Nearby Friends	[39] [40]
30	Lightbox.com	, London, England	May 15, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees	—	—	[41]
31	Karma	United States, San Francisco, California	May 21, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Lee Linden, Ben Lewis	—	Facebook Gifts	[42]
32	Face.com	Israel, Tel Aviv	June 18, 2012	100,000,000	—	—	—	[43] [44]
33	Spool	United States, San Francisco, California	July 14, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees	—	Mobile engineering team	[45]
34	Acrylic Software	Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia	July 20, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Two employees	—	Facebook's design team	[46]
35	Threadsy	United States, San Francisco, California	August 24, 2012	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[47]
36	Atlas Solutions	United States, Seattle, Washington	February 28, 2013	<100,000,000	—	—	—	[48]
37	osmeta	United States, Mountain View, CA	data-sort-value="March 1, 2013"	March 2013	—	17 engineers	—	—	[49]
38	Storylane (Mixtent)	United States, Palo Alto, CA	data-sort-value="March 1, 2013"	March 2013	—	Jonathan Gheller, 5 engineers	—	—	[50]
39	Hot Studio	United States, New York, New York, San Francisco, California	March 14, 2013	—	—	—	—	[51]
40	Spaceport	United States, Burlingame, California	April 23, 2013	—	—	—	—	[52]
41	Parse	United States, San Francisco, California	April 25, 2013	85,000,000	—	—	—	[53]
42	Monoidics	, London, England	July 18, 2013	—	—	—	—	[54]
43	Jibbigo	United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	August 12, 2013	—	—	—	—	[55]
44	Onavo	Israel, Tel Aviv	October 13, 2013	—	Guy Rosen, CEO	—	—	[56]
45	SportStream	United States, San Francisco, California	December 17, 2013	—	—	—	—	[57]
46	Little Eye Labs	India, Bengaluru, Karnataka	January 8, 2014	15,000,000	—	—	—	[58] [59]
47	Branch	United States, New York, New York	January 13, 2014	15,000,000	—	—	—	[60]
48	WhatsApp	United States, Mountain View, California	February 19, 2014	19,000,000,000	Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum	—	—	[61]
49	Oculus VR	United States, Irvine, California	March 25, 2014	2,000,000,000	Co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, Engineer Chris Dycus, and CTO John D. Carmack	—	Reality Labs	[62] [63]
50	Ascenta	, Somerset, England	March 27, 2014	20,000,000	—	—	—	[64]
51	Salorix	United States, Palo Alto, CA	April 14, 2014	—	Santanu Bhattacharya	—	—
52	ProtoGeo Oy	Finland, Helsinki	April 24, 2014	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 2018	[65] [66] [67] [68]
53	PrivateCore	United States, Palo Alto, California	August 7, 2014	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[69]
54	LiveRail	United States, San Francisco, California	August 14, 2014	400,000,000 - 500,000,000	—	—	—	[70]
55	WaveGroup Sound	United States, Burlingame, California	August 26, 2014	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[71]
56	Wit.ai	United States, Palo Alto, California	January 6, 2015	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[72]
57	Quickfire Networks	United States, San Diego, California	January 8, 2015	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[73]
58	TheFind, Inc.	United States, Mountain View, California	March 14, 2015	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[74]
59	Surreal Vision	, London, England	May 26, 2015	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[75]
60	Endaga	United States, Oakland, California	October 3, 2015	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[76]
61	Pebbles	Israel, Kfar Saba	July 16, 2015	60,000,000	—	—	—	[77]
62	MSQRD (Masquerade)	Belarus, Minsk	March 9, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders)	—	—	[78] [79]
63	Two Big Ears	, Scotland	May 23, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[80]
64	Nascent Objects	United States, California	Sep 19, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[81]
65	Infiniled	Ireland, Cork	October 10, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—
66	CrowdTangle	United States	November 11, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[82] [83]
67	Faciometrics	United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	November 16, 2016	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Fernando De la Torre	Carnegie Mellon University	—	[84]
68	Zurich Eye			data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus VR	[85]
69	Ozlo	United States, Palo Alto, California	July 31, 2017	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Messenger	[86]
70	Fayteq AG			data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Live	[87]
71	tbh	United States, Oakland, California	October 16, 2017	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon	—	—	[88]
72	Confirm	United States, Boston, Massachusetts	January 23, 2018	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle	—	—	[89]
73	Bloomsbury AI	，London		30,000,000	—	—	—	[90]
74	Redkix	Israel, Tel Aviv	July 26, 2018	100,000,000	Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi	—	Workplace by Facebook	[91]
75	Vidpresso	United States, Ogden, Utah	August 13, 2018	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin	Y Combinator	—	[92]
76	Dreambit	United States, Seattle, Washington		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shlizerman	University of Washington	Reality Labs	[93]
77	Chainspace	, London		—	George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino	University College London	Facebook Blockchain	[94]
78	GrokStyle	United States, San Francisco, California	February 8, 2019	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Kavita Bala, Sean Bell	—	—	[95]
79	Servicefriend	Israel, Tel Aviv		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	Ido Arad, Shahar Ben Ami	—	Novi	[96]
80	CTRL-labs	United States, New York City, New York		data-sort-value="750,000,000"	undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion	Thomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh	—	Reality Labs	[97]
81	Packagd	United States, San Francisco, California		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Marketplace	[98]
82	Beat Games	Czech Republic, Prague		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[99]
83	Atlas ML	, London		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[100] [101]
84	PlayGiga	Spain, Madrid		70,000,000	—	—	—	[102] [103]
85	Sanzaru Games	United States, Foster City, California		data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[104]
86	Scape Technologies	, London		~40,000,000	—	—	Reality Labs	[105]
87	Giphy	United States, San Francisco, New York	May 15, 2020	400,000,000	—	—	Instagram	[106] [107]
88	Mapillary	, Malmö	June 18, 2020	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	—	[108]
89	Ready at Dawn	United States, Irvine, California	June 22, 2020	data-sort-value="0"	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio
90	Lemnis Technologies	Singapore, Singapore	September 18, 2020	undisclosed	Pierre-Yves Laffont	—	Reality Labs	[109]
91	Kustomer	United States, New York, New York	November 30, 2020	1,000,000,000	—	—	—	[110]
92	Downpour Interactive	United States, San Francisco, California	April 30, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[111]
93	Unit 2 Games	, Leamington Spa	June 4, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Gaming	[112]
94	BigBox VR	United States, Seattle, Washington	June 11, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[113]
95	AI.Reverie	United States, New York, NY, New York	October 11, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	—	[114]
96	Within	United States, Los Angeles, California	October 29, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[115]
97	Twisted Pixel Games	United States	November 1, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[116]
98	Presize	Germany, Munich	April 8, 2022	~100,000,000	Leon Szeli, Tomislav Tomov	Technical University Munich	Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping	[117]
99	Lofelt	Germany, Berlin		undisclosed	—	—	—	[118]
100	Armature Studio	United States	October 11, 2022	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio
101	Camouflaj	United States	October 11, 2022	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio

See also

• List of largest mergers and acquisitions
• Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg. Quora.
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4. Web site: Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion. 2012-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120411095346/https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-billion/. 2012-04-11.
5. News: June 13, 2008. Facebook wins Manx battle for face-book.com . The Register . London . October 1, 2007. Williams, Chris .
6. Web site: thefacebook.com becomes facebook.com for $200,000 . August 23, 2005 . Timeline of Facebook.com . Xtimeline.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006093601/http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=1391 . October 6, 2011 .
7. Web site: Facebook buys Parakey. Gigaom. 2007-07-19. 2010-10-30.
8. News: Judge Blocks Rival's Effort to Learn Value of Facebook's Stock. New York Law Journal. 2010-03-17. 2010-10-30.
9. News: The AP Reveals Details of Facebook/ConnectU Settlement With Greatest Hack Ever. TechCrunch. 2009-02-11. 2010-10-30.
10. News: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed. TechCrunch. 2009-08-10. 2010-10-30.
11. News: Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?. TechCrunch. 2010-02-19. 2010-10-30.
12. News: Facebook Buys Up Divvyshot To Make Facebook Photos Even Better. TechCrunch. 2010-04-02. 2010-10-30.
13. Web site: Facebook buys friendster patents for 40m. GigaOm. 2010-08-04. 2010-10-30.
14. Web site: Facebook Acquires ShareGrove. Mashable. 2010-05-26. 2010-10-30.
15. Web site: Facebook Buys Yet Another NYC Startup -- Why Doesn't It Just Open An Engineering Office Here Already?. Business Insider. 2010-11-16. 2018-01-09.
16. News: Facebook acquires social travel-recommendation site Nextstop. TechCrunch. 2010-07-08. 2010-10-30.
17. Web site: Facebook Acquires Chai Labs, Gains 'Godfather of Google Adsense'. PCMag. 2010-08-15. 2010-10-30.
18. Web site: Facebook acquires Hot Potato. Mashable. 2010-08-20. 2010-10-30.
19. News: Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Nabs Sam Lessin. TechCrunch. 2010-10-29. 2010-10-30.
20. News: FB.com acquired by Facebook . January 11, 2011 . NameMon News . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110204210357/http://namemon.com/news/1-latest-news/115-fbcom-acquired-by-facebook . February 4, 2011 .
21. Web site: Facebook Acquires Mobile Advertising Company Out of Stealth Mode. AllThingsD. 2011-01-25. 2011-01-25.
22. News: Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Service Beluga In A Talent AND Technology Deal. TechCrunch. 2011-03-01. 2011-03-01.
23. News: Confirmed: Facebook Acquires Snaptu (For An Estimated $60 – $70 Million). TechCrunch. 2011-03-20. 2011-03-20.
24. Web site: Facebook Acq-hires Data Organization Startup Daytum.
25. Web site: Daytum's Dataviz Wizards, Nick Felton and Ryan Case, Join Facebook. DesignTaxi. 2011-04-27. 2011-04-27.
26. News: Facebook Buys Sofa, A Software Design Team That Will Help Make Facebook More Beautiful. TechCrunch. 2011-06-09. 2011-06-09.
27. Web site: Facebook buys e-mail prioritiser MailRank. FirstPost. 2011-11-16. 2011-11-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20111117142346/http://www.firstpost.com/tech/facebook-buys-e-mail-prioritiser-mailrank-132586.html. 2011-11-17. dead.
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29. Web site: Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press . Don . Reisinger . . 2 August 2011 . 5 May 2012.
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31. News: Facebook acquires Q&A service Friend.ly . https://web.archive.org/web/20111012141147/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-acquires-q-a-service-friendly/4489 . dead . October 12, 2011 . Emil . Protalinski . . 11 October 2011 . 5 May 2012.
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33. News: Facebook Acquires Startup Friend.ly . Barbara E. . Hernandez . . 13 October 2011 . 5 May 2012.
34. News: Facebook Acquires Team Behind HTML5 App Platform Strobe; SproutCore Lives On . . Robin . Wauters . 8 November 2011 . 5 May 2012.
35. News: Facebook hires mobile tech developer team. . 8 November 2011 . 5 May 2012 . Alexi . Oreskovic .
36. Web site: Facebook's Acquisitions on its Journey to Perfection. December 10, 2015. Villanova University.
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38. News: We are joining Facebook! . . The Tagtile Team . 12 April 2012 . 5 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120504115645/http://tagtile.com/so-that-happened.php . 4 May 2012 .
39. News: Facebook acquires location-based social discovery startup Glancee . https://web.archive.org/web/20120508012258/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-acquires-location-based-social-discovery-startup-glancee/12566 . dead . May 8, 2012 . Emil . Protalinski . 5 May 2012 . 5 May 2012 . ZDNet.
40. Facebook Acquisition Points to Future of More Phone Tracking . . 5 May 2012 . 5 May 2012 . Christina . DesMarais . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120505170659/http://www.pcworld.com/article/255090/facebook_acquisition_points_to_future_of_more_phone_tracking.html . 5 May 2012 .
41. Web site: Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears.
42. Web site: Facebook stumbles, buys startup Karma.
43. News: Facebook acquires Face.com — stock up 4.7 percent. . Ari . Levy . 19 June 2012 . 19 June 2012.
44. News: Awesome News – Facebook Acquires Face.com . Face.com . Gil . 18 June 2012 . 19 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120619170605/http://face.com/blog/facebook-acquires-face-com/ . 19 June 2012 . dead .
45. Web site: Facebook acquires mobile-bookmarking service Spool. . 14 July 2012.
46. Web site: Facebook acquires Mac, iOS developer Acrylic Software. . 20 July 2012.
47. News: Facebook Acquires Threadsy, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo. . 24 August 2012.
48. News: Facebook Confirms It Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite From Microsoft To Close The Ad Spend Loop. . 28 February 2013.
49. News: Confirmed: Facebook Has Acquired Osmeta, A Stealth Mobile Software Startup . "TechCrunch" . 10 April 2013.
50. News: Facebook acquires Storylane, a brand-new blogging/sharing platform . "venturebeat" . 8 March 2013.
51. News: Welcoming the Talented Team Behind Hot Studio . "Facebook" . 29 March 2013.
52. News: Facebook Acqhires Team From HTML5 Game Platform Spaceport.io, Which Will Keep Running . "TechCrunch" . 23 April 2013.
53. News: Welcoming Parse to Facebook . "Facebook" . 25 April 2013.
54. News: Facebook to Acquire Monoidics' Assets! . "Monoidics" . 18 July 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130718144452/http://www.monoidics.com/uncategorized/facebook-to-acquire-monoidics-assets . 18 July 2013.
55. News: Facebook Acquires "Mobile Technologies", Developer Of Speech Translation App Jibbigo . "TechCrunch" . 12 August 2013.
56. News: Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M... And (Finally?) Gets Its Office In Israel . "TechCrunch" . 14 October 2013.
57. News: Sporty Facebook acquires a San Francisco-based startup . Woolor . 17 December 2013.
58. News: It's Official, Bengaluru Based Little Eye Labs Acquired by Facebook . NextBigWhat . 8 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140108070251/http://www.nextbigwhat.com/facebook-acquires-little-eye-labs-297/ . 8 January 2014.
59. News: Indian Startup Little Eye Labs Confirms Its Acquisition By Facebook, Deal Worth $10-$15M. 26 March 2014. TechCrunch. 7 January 2014.
60. News: Facebook Acquires Branch Media Team To Lead New "Conversations" Group . TechCrunch . 13 January 2013.
61. News: 19 February 2014. Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp. Facebook. https://web.archive.org/web/20140224184730/http://newsroom.fb.com/News/805/Facebook-to-Acquire-WhatsApp. 2014-02-24.
62. Web site: Facebook acquires Oculus VR . Facebook . 25 March 2014.
63. Web site: Rachael . King . blog . Facebook's latest multi-billion buy: 3D gaming company Oculus . 25 March 2014 . Between the Lines . ZDNet . United States . live . 26 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140326000013/http://www.zdnet.com/facebooks-latest-multi-billion-buy-3d-gaming-company-oculus-7000027710/ .
64. News: Facebook to Acquire Ascenta . Facebook . 27 March 2014 . 11 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128213206/http://www.ascenta-hale.co.uk/ . 28 January 2016 . dead .
65. News: With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market . Reed . Albergott . Digits . . April 24, 2014 . April 25, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140425224456/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/24/with-app-acquisition-facebook-enters-fitness-tracking-market/ . April 25, 2014 . live .
66. Web site: Etherington. Darrell. 2014-04-24. Facebook Acquires Fitness And Activity Tracking App Moves. 2021-02-10. TechCrunch. en-US.
67. Web site: Wagner. Kurt. Moves App Backtracks, Shares User Data With Facebook. 2021-02-10. Mashable. 6 May 2014. en.
68. Web site: 2018-07-02. Hello. tbh, We're Moving On. 2021-02-10. About Facebook. en-US.
69. News: Facebook Buys Secure Server Technology Provider PrivateCore . Sarah. Perez. . August 7, 2014 . August 7, 2014.
70. News: Facebook's $400M-$500M Acquisition Of Video Ad Tech Startup LiveRail Is Now Official . Josh. Constine. . August 14, 2014 . September 24, 2015.
71. News: Facebook Acquires A Sound Studio To Help Power Its App Factory . TechCrunch . August 26, 2014.
72. News: Facebook acquires speech recognition startup Wit.ai . The Next Web . January 5, 2015 . January 6, 2015.
73. News: Facebook Acquires QuickFire Networks, A 'Pied Piper' For Video . TechCrunch . January 8, 2015 . January 9, 2015.
74. News: Facebook Buys And Shuts Down Shopping Site TheFind To Boost Commerce In Ads . TechCrunch . March 13, 2015 . March 13, 2015.
75. News: Oculus acquires 3D mapping company Surreal Vision to turn reality into a video game. 27 May 2015. The Verge.
76. News: Facebook Hires Founders Of Cellular-Network-In-A-Box Company Endaga. 6 October 2015. Techcrunch.
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78. News: Facebook acquires video filter app Msqrd . Wall Street Journal . March 9, 2016 . March 9, 2016.
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