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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. Always interested in people not IP by vortex2.71 · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, Mark Zuckerberg says that he ALWAYS acquires companies for the people rather than the intellectual property.

    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:Feudalism and the new serfdom? by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Buying a company for its employees seems so much like a recapitulation of the feudal system."

    I'd say it acknowledges the fact that the people in a company are worth more than some moronic idea about an imaginary intellectual property their lawyers concocted.