Blog (English blog, from web log - web log, online diary) - the web site, which is the main content - regularly added entries that contain text, images or multimedia. Blogs are characterized by brief entries of interest that are sorted in reverse chronological order (most recent entry on top). Differences from the traditional blog diary conditioned medium: Blogs are usually public and involve the reader, who may enter into a public debate with the author (in the comments to blogozapisi or their blogs).
Popular social networking site Facebook for Russian users geolocation launched a service called "Places»(« Places »). This is stated in the official press release, which was received by the Editor "Lenta.ru".
Home
Portfolio
Services
Order
Other
Facebook has acquired Israeli software developer for mobile devices
The world's largest social networking site Facebook acquired Snaptu, an Israeli developer of mobile applications for cell phones. This was announced on his blog himself an Israeli startup.
Financial size of the deal were not announced, but according to some who are in the disposal of the Israeli newspaper The Marker, the size of the transaction may be around 60-70 million dollars. It is expected that the transaction will be fully completed within the next few weeks.
The most well-known development company Snaptu should be called the same name an application that allows you to fairly cheap mobile phones to use the services of the most popular online services such as Twitter or Google Picasa.
In 2011, this Israeli company has also developed a special application for access to a network Facebook. In this case, as reported by itself Snaptu, this application can support more than 2,500 models of mobile phones.
It is planned that by the acquisition of Facebook would increase significantly the number of its own users. In the social networking site Facebook more than 500 million users. At the same time, the number of owners of mobile phones has just a few billion people.
Israeli company Snaptu was established in 2007 and has offices in Tel Aviv, London and Silicon Valley. The official statement also says that earlier the company Snaptu received investments totaling about $ 9 million from various companies.