Facebook & social networking

Instagram

Instagram was acquired for $1 Billion and today its the leading social network to filter & upload photos, and it earns $8 Billion in annual advertising revenues

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is one of the most popular phone messaging platforms

Facebook acquisitions

• Oculus Rift is the leading VR (virtual reality) headset
• Moves a fitness app
• Chai Labs was a semantic web search engine started by former Google AdSense ad executive Gokul Rajaram
• Storylane
• TheFind
• Branch
• FriendFeed
• drop.io
• Gowalla
• Walletin
• Face.com for $60 million to watch movies online
• Hot Potato
• Sharegrove
• Divvyshot was a photo sharing service acquired out of beta
• Nextstop was a location based service provider of travel recommendations
• Octazen Solutions
• Snaptu for $70 million
• WhoGlue
• Mailrank
• Strobe

https://mashable.com/2010/04/02/facebook-acquires-divvyshot/ https://mashable.com/2010/05/26/facebook-acquires-sharegrove/ https://mashable.com/2010/08/15/facebook-chai-labs/ https://gigaom.com/2010/08/16/why-facebook-would-buy-chai-labs/ 2011 --> Strobe Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Digital Staircase Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Somo Enterprises, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Push Pop Press, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Sofa Payments B.V. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Daytum Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Recres Image Conversion --> Not Made Public 2011 --> Beluga Inc. --> Not Made Public 2011 --> rel8tion, LLC --> Not Made Public 2012 --> AOL Inc., Patents and License to Retained Patent Portfolio --> 1 billion 2012 --> Instagram, Inc. --> 1 billion 2012 --> Watch Movies Instantly Online --> 60 million 2012 --> Threadsy, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Acrylic Software --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Bolt Peters, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Karma Science, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Glancee, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Tagtile --> Not Made Public 2012 --> Caffeinated Mind, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Onavo Mobile Ltd. --> 150 million 2013 --> Zoom Video Communications, Inc. --> 7 million 2013 --> SportStream, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Mobile Technologies, LLC --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Monoidics Limited --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Parse LLC --> Not Made Public 2013 --> osmeta Inc. --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Hot Studio Inc. --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Mixtent, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2013 --> Atlas Solutions, LLC --> Not Made Public 2014 --> WhatsApp Inc. --> 20 billion 2014 --> Oculus VR, LLC --> 2 billion 2014 --> LiveRail Inc. --> 500 million 2014 --> Ascenta (UK) Limited --> 20 million 2014 --> Branch Media, Inc. --> 15 million 2014 --> Little Eye Software Labs Pvt Ltd. --> 14 million 2014 --> PrivateCore Inc. --> Not Made Public 2014 --> Pryte Ltd. --> Not Made Public 2014 --> ProtoGeo Oy --> Not Made Public 2015 --> Menlo Science & Technology Park --> 400 million 2015 --> Innovi --> Not Made Public 2015 --> Tugboat Yards Inc. --> Not Made Public 2015 --> TheFind, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2015 --> Quickfire Networks Corporation --> Not Made Public 2015 --> http://Wit.AI, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2016 --> FacioMetrics LLC --> Not Made Public 2016 --> CrowdTangle, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2016 --> Nascent Objects, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2016 --> Two Big Ears Ltd. --> Not Made Public 2016 --> Masquerade Technologies, Inc. --> Not Made Public 2017 --> Midnight Labs LLC --> Not Made Public 2017 --> fayteq GmbH --> Not Made Public 2017 --> Ozlo Inc. --> Not Made Public 2017 --> Source3, Inc. --> Not Made Public

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