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Facebook Buys a Private File Sharing Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-acquisitionville dept.

angry tapir writes "Facebook has purchased most of drop.io, an online content-sharing service, but the social-networking giant sounds more interested in acquiring the company's developers than its technology. Drop.io is a service that lets users create a 'drop' where they can share documents, videos and other digital content. The user can set a time for how long the drop will exist, decide who can view the content, set permissions for who can alter the content and share content in a variety of ways, including on Facebook."

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  1. Re:Always interested in people not IP by contra_mundi · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Steve Ballmer always acquires companies for the office equipment, rather than the people or the imaginary property.

  2. Re:Always interested in people not IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course. By explicitly mentioning "supply of ammo" that the post you replied to used in a subtle way, you're explaining the joke by overtly alluding to the time he said "I'm going to fucking kill Google" and threw a chair. Were it not for your explanation, people would totally not have gotten the reference since "office supplies" is far too vague when mentioned along with Steve Ballmer.

    Please mod parent +5, Redundant.

  3. Re:Always interested in people not IP by dskzero · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was such a asperger's machine gun flurry i'm tempted to answer.

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