SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, announced on Monday that it has agreed to buy social media star-up FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum. FriendFeed
, a service that makes it easy for users to share with friends online
, was founded in October 2007 by four former Google employees who played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps.RelatedTwitter, Facebook hit by denial-of-service attacksFacebook becomes world's 4th largest website: report Though Facebook has "borrowed" quite a few features that FriendFeed popularized such as an emphasis on real-time news updates, the biggest win for Facebook is FriendFeed's team of engineers
, technology blog TechCrunch said in a report about the deal. "Since I first tried FriendFeed
, I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information
," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive officer, said in a statement. "As this shows
, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use
," he added. According to their agreements
, all of FriendFeed's 12 employees, including its four founders, will join Facebook and the four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook's engineering and product teams. Facebook said FriendFeed will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans.Related Topics Articles：
