Facebook, Inc. M&A History
Facebook Inc acquires FriendFeed Inc Aug 10, 2009 … US - Facebook Inc acquired the entire share capital of FriendFeed Inc, a Mountain View-based provider of online networking services. Terms were not disclosed.…
Digital Sky Technologies acquires a minority stake in Facebook Inc (pending) May 26, 2009 … US - Digital Sky Technologies of Russia (Digital) planned to acquire an undisclosed minority stake in Facebook Inc (Facebook), a Palo Alto- based provider of online social networking services, for USD ### mil. Originally, Digital was rumored to be planning to…
Saints Capital acquires a minority stake in Facebook Inc Jan 13, 2009 … US - Saints Capital (SC) acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Facebook Inc, a provider of online networking services. Concurrently, SC acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Zazzle.com Inc.…
Facebook Inc is rumored to be planning to acquire Twitter Inc Nov 25, 2008 … US - Facebook Inc was rumored to be in negotiations to acquire Twitter Inc, a provider of Internet micro-blogging services.…
Social Gaming Network acquires Facebook Inc-(fluff)Friends from Facebook Inc Sep 16, 2008 … US - Social Gaming Network acquired (fluff)Friends of Facebook Inc, a provider of online networking services. Terms were not disclosed.…
Samwer Family acquires a minority stake in Facebook Inc Jan 16, 2008 … US - The Samwer Family of Germany, acquired an undisclosed interest in Facebook Inc, a Palo Alto-based provider of online networking services.…
Facebook Inc acquires Tianwang (pending) Nov 09, 2007 … CHINA - Facebook Inc planned to acquire Tianwang, an internet search engine service provider, for an estimated ##.### mil Chinese yuan ($## mil US).…
Rumor dispelled that Microsoft Corp was seeking to acquire minority stake in Facebook Inc Sep 25, 2007 … US - Microsoft Corp discontinued rumors that it was planning to acquire a #% stake in Facebook, a provider of online networking services.…
Facebook Inc acquires Parakey Inc Jul 19, 2007 … US - Facebook acquired Parakey Inc, a developer of Internet software. Terms were not disclosed.…
Rumor dispelled that Seeking Buyer was planning acquisition of Facebook Inc Mar 28, 2006 … US - Facebook, a provider of online networking services, discontinued rumors that it was seeking a buyer for the company. Yahoo! Inc was named potential bidder.…
Facebook, Inc. M&A Summary
Facebook, Inc. has made 2 acquisitions while taking stakes in 0 companies. Facebook, Inc. has 3 divestitures during this period.
Year Acquisitions Stakes Divestitures 2009 1 0 1 2008 0 0 2 2007 1 0 0 Total 2 0 3
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