| 1 | In July 2004, Zuckerberg incorporated TheFacebook.com, a new company, in Delaware and acquired TheFacebook, LLC (Florida) in order to redistribute shares and cut out co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Please refer to PrivCo's Detailed Business Description narrative on Facebook, Inc. for more details. - Details → |
| 2 | Facebook rejected the $10 million takeover bid from Friendster. - Details → |
| 3 | A few months before MySpace was acquired by News Corp., MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe had met with Zuckerberg, Parker, and Cohler to discuss a potential acquisition. - Details → |
| 4 | Viacom bid to acquire Facebook at a proposed deal value of around $1.45 Billion with a cash proponent of $800 million. - Details → |
| 5 | After Yahoo, Inc.'s 2Q 2006 Earnings were reported, the company reduced its $1 Billion cash acquisition offer to $850 million. Facebook rejected the offer. - Details → |
| 6 | Microsoft attempted to acquire a stake in Facebook at a $15 billion valuation with the option to purchase and additional 5% every six months. Although Microsoft ended up investing in Facebook (please see PrivCo's Funding Table on Facebook), the option was not included in the deal. - Details → |
| 7 | Facebook reportedly offered an estimated $500 million in stock and $50 million in cash to acquire Twitter. The deal never came to fruition. - Details → |
| 8 | Shares were acquired through Facebook employee stock sales. - Details → |
| 9 | Facebook acquired FriendFeed for $15 million in cash and $32.5 million in Facebook stock. FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor would later become Facebook's chief technology officer. - Details → |
| 10 | Elevation Partners acquired roughly 1% of Facebook by purchasing $90 million worth of the company's stock on the secondary market at roughly $20/share. - Details → |
| 11 | Divvyshot's staff, including founder Sam Odio, would join Facebook's team to work on Facebook Photos. - Details → |
| 12 | Upon the acquisition's close, Facebook absorbed ShareGrove's assets and employees and subsequently shut down ShareGrove's operations. - Details → |
| 13 | Elevation Partners purchased 5 million Facebook shares in the secondary market, raising the firm's total stake in Facebook to 7.5 million shares or around 1.5% ownership. - Details → |
| 14 | Hot Potato founder Justin Shaffer would later improve Facebook Groups and help launch the Facebook Places product. - Details → |
| 15 | Facebook acquired seven Friendster patents and 11 pending patent applications in exchange for advertising, profit sharing for virtual goods, and cash in a deal that was valued at $40 million. Sources indicate that Facebook may have acquired the patents to help prevent future IP violation claims. - Details → |
| 16 | Facebook's acquisition of Nexstop was notably fueled by the absorption of it's talent. Nextstop co-founders and former Google employees Adrian Graham (helped create Google Groups and Picasa) and Carl Sjogreen (helped create Google Calendar) became part of the Facebook team. - Details → |
| 17 | In addition to acquiring intellectual property from Zenbe, Inc. for its Zenbe Mail product, Facebook also brought the three engineers working on the project at Zenbe onboard the Facebook team. Zenbe shut down its Zenbe Mail product operations on October 8, 2010. - Details → |
| 18 | Facebook's $2 Billion bid to acquire Twitter was combated by Google's $10 Billion bid, both of which were turned down. - Details → |
| 19 | Facebook purchased a couple of domain names from the American Farm Bureau, including FB.com. FB.com is now used internally by Facebook employees. - Details → |
| 20 | Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton will be joining the product design team at Facebook. Facebook acquired Daytum primarily to hire the company's two founding employees, Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case. - Details → |
| 21 | Skype, which pulled it's IPO in 2010, was also reportedly in talks with Google for potential acquisition opportunities (eventually was acquired by Microsoft). - Details → |
| 22 | Pushpop founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris joined Facebook upon the closing of the acquisition. - Details → |
| 23 | Interpublic Group sold half of its 0.4% stake in Facebook for $133 Million, retaining 0.2%. - Details → |
| 24 | MailRank Co-Founders Bethanye McKinney Blount and Bryan O'Sullivan joined Facebook's engineering team. - Details → |
| 25 | Cash and stock compensation was paid and/or guaranteed to GoWalla's founders and employees, although GoWalla's web application was not directly acquired or used by Facebook. Most of Gowalla's employees, including founder Josh Williams, to move to Facebook's offices in Palo Alto, at first to focus on developing Facebook's Timeline Feature. Deal value/price is PrivCo estimate of the total cash and stock compensation for employment guarantees made to GoWalla's founders and employees. - Details → |
| 26 | Facebook, Inc. acquired an unspecified startup company for $6.3 million in Facebook stock. According to the Facebook S-1 filing, the company issued 212,250 shares of Class A common stock as partial consideration to two entities in connection with the purchase of certain assets of the startup company. - Details → |
| 27 | Caffeinated Mind's 3 employees will cease coverage on their two product lines (Expresso and Sendoid) and will focus on developing internal sharing tools for Facebook employees. - Details → |
| 28 | 6 employees of GazeHawk joined the Facebook team in March. Gazehawk's eye tracking technology and patent will remain separate from Facebook. - Details → |
| 29 | Facebook's bid was too low and beaten by Microsoft's $1.06 billion bid. - Details → |
| 30 | Total purchase price consists of: $521 million (issuance of 12 million vested shares of Class B common stock to non-employee stockholders of Instagram and $300 million in cash) plus $194 million (11 million unvested shares of our Class B common stock to employee stockholders of Instagram on the closing date). - Details → |
| 31 | Facebook acquired 650 of the 925 patents that Microsoft acquired from AOL. Facebook had bid and failed on acquiring these patents from AOL. - Details → |
| 32 | Facebook has acq-hired Bolt | Peters, a research and design agency. Bolt Peters will shut down its operations on June 22nd, 2012. The company's most popular product, Ethnio, will remain as a separate company. Financial terms were not disclosed. Six employees are expected to join Facebook's design team headed by Kate Aronowitz. - Details → |
| 33 | Facebook is not acquiring Pieceable's company, technology, or customer information, but rather acquiring and integrating Pieceable's 3-engineer team into its own. - Details → |
| 34 | The acqui-hire enables Facebook to use Spool's talent to get better performance from its mobile business. - Details → |
| 35 | Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Acrylic Software's product and services were not acquired. - Details → |
| 36 | Terms were undisclosed. - Details → |
| 37 | The Spaceport.io team will move as a team to Facebook. Meanwhile the Spaceport platform will continue to be run by co-founder Peter Relan and the YouWeb team. Facebook will not be acquiring the technology itself.
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| 38 | Dropbox Inc. also bid for Parse. Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. had also expressed interest. - Details → |
| 39 | Facebook's acquisition of Waze would allow it to compete with the geo-location products of its rivals, Apple and Google by leveraging its user base and Waze's technology. - Details → |
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