Comments on: Facebook Announces Agreement To Acquire FriendFeed

By: RUMOR: Twitter Raising $100 Million From T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark, and IVP

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:45:16 +0000

[...] How many users does Twitter have? The company expects to have 25 million users by the end of this year. Twitter rival Facebook.com has about 300 million users. At one point Facebook made an offer to buy out Twitter for $500 million, $100 million in cash and $400 million in stock options. Rather than buying out Twitter, Facebook bought out FriendFeed. [...]

By: Facebook Emulating Twitter Responses Using The @ Symbol

Facebook Emulating Twitter Responses Using The @ Symbol — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:56:24 +0000

[...] Twitter. The offer was $100 million in cash and $400 million in stock options. Twitter refused so Facebook bought out FriendFeed several months later. On top of buying out a Twitter competitor, Facebook is now taking an idea [...]

By: Facebook May Hire 50% More Employees This Year

Facebook May Hire 50% More Employees This Year — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:16:43 +0000

[...] Facebook has about $716 million in funding and has made a couple of acquisitions in the last two years. Earlier this month Facebook acquired FriendFeed for $47.5 million. [...]