- notes
- {"status": "Acquired (team acquihire); products shut down", "acquirer": "Facebook", "announcement_date": "February 29, 2012", "deal_type": "Team acquisition / acquihire; Facebook did not acquire the company's technology or products.", "deal_terms": null, "deal_terms_note": "VentureBeat: 'Additional details of the arrangement were not disclosed.' Le Monde Informatique: amount not communicated; Facebook reportedly acquired only the three engineers, not the company or its technology.", "product_shutdown_dates": {"sendoid_web": "March 7, 2012", "sendoid_desktop": "March 14, 2012", "expresso_pilot": "Within two weeks of February 29, 2012 announcement", "source_urls": ["https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/facebook-caffeinated-mind/", "https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-facebook-recrute-l-equipe-de-caffeinated-mind-specialiste-du-transfert-de-fichiers-47998.html", "https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/article/NEWS/20120302/384289/"]}, "post_acquisition_use": "Team joined Facebook to develop internal information-sharing and recruiting tools; Facebook spokesperson said Facebook would not enter the file-sharing business via this deal.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sendoid", "https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/facebook-caffeinated-mind/", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/kintaba-incident-alerts/", "https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-facebook-recrute-l-equipe-de-caffeinated-mind-specialiste-du-transfert-de-fichiers-47998.html"]}
- source urls
- ["https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/kintaba-incident-alerts/", "https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/facebook-caffeinated-mind/", "https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-facebook-recrute-l-equipe-de-caffeinated-mind-specialiste-du-transfert-de-fichiers-47998.html", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sendoid"]