Friday, July 20, 2007
Facebook ‘Poke’ Leads to Awkward One-Night Acquisition
Well would you look at that. Facebook has gone and bought itself a company. Yesterday, the nauseatingly overhyped social-networking site made its first acquisition, purchasing (for an undisclosed sum) Parakey, a start-up run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, the engineering duo who created Firefox.
“Blake and Joe built the Firefox Web browser and then turned [...]




