TechCrunch-Facebook?s Latest Acqui-Hire: Spool, The ?Instapaper On Steroids?

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57472471-93/facebook-acquires-mobile-bookmarking-service-spool/

CNET: All Tech ? The social-networking giant is paying for the company's five employees, not its technology. [Read more] spool : facebook :

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/facebooks-latest-acqui-hire-spool-the-instapaper-on-steroids/

TechCrunch ? Facebook has acquired the team behind Spool, the mobile content-caching startup that launched in September 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt. At that time, my colleague Sarah Perez snappily described its service as ?Instapaper on steroids.? ~ This looks like a pure talent acquisition ? it doesn?t appear that any of the technology Spool built ...More will be integrated into Facebook, and the company has already shut down its service. Spool raised a $1 million round of venture capital this past January from a group including SVAngel, Felicis Ventures, Yuri Milner?s Start Fund and YouTube founder Steve Chen. ~ We?ve reached out to Spool for more information about the deal ? financial details, staff numbers, and the like. This will be updated with any news we receive. ~ Facebook sent along this statement about the deal: ~ ?The Spool team has deep expertise in mobile software development and a passion for making content easy to consume. We?re excited for the team to join and accelerate their vision at Facebook.? ~ Here is the blog post Spool co-founder Avichal Garg wrote announcing the move: ~ We started Spool to make content easy to consume on a mobile device. To accomplish this, we built some very sophisticated technology and developed a deep expertise in mobile software development. We firmly believe that solving these problems will be increasingly important as the world accesses the Internet primarily through mobile devices. ~ We are proud to announce that today we will be pursuing our vision as a part of Facebook. If you were a Spool user, please read the instructions on retaining your bookmarks. ~ We are extremely excited to accelerate our vision and help Facebook?s users connect and share with the people in their lives. We wouldn?t be in a position to have this sort of impact without our supporters and the Spool community. Please accept a heartfelt thank you for supporting us and for affording us this opportunity. ~ Sincerely, ~ The Spool team ...Less spool : 1-million : facebook : instapaper : techcrunch-disrupt :

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http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/facebooks-latest-acqui-hire-spool-the-instapaper-on-steroids/

TechCrunch Europe ? Facebook has acquired the team behind Spool, the mobile content-caching startup that launched in September 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt. At that time, my colleague ...More Sarah Perez snappily described its service as ?Instapaper on steroids.? ~ This looks like a pure talent acquisition ? it doesn?t appear that any of the technology Spool built will be integrated into Facebook, and the company has already shut down its service. Spool raised a $1 million round of venture capital this past January from a group including SVAngel, Felicis Ventures, Yuri Milner?s Start Fund and YouTube founder Steve Chen. ~ We?ve reached out to Spool for more information about the deal ? financial details, staff numbers, and the like. This will be updated with any news we receive. ~ Facebook sent along this statement about the deal: ~ ?The Spool team has deep expertise in mobile software development and a passion for making content easy to consume. We?re excited for the team to join and accelerate their vision at Facebook.? ~ Here is the blog post Spool co-founder Avichal Garg wrote announcing the move: ~ We started Spool to make content easy to consume on a mobile device. To accomplish this, we built some very sophisticated technology and developed a deep expertise in mobile software development. We firmly believe that solving these problems will be increasingly important as the world accesses the Internet primarily through mobile devices. ~ We are proud to announce that today we will be pursuing our vision as a part of Facebook. If you were a Spool user, please read the instructions on retaining your bookmarks. ~ We are extremely excited to accelerate our vision and help Facebook?s users connect and share with the people in their lives. We wouldn?t be in a position to have this sort of impact without our supporters and the Spool community. Please accept a heartfelt thank you for supporting us and for affording us this opportunity. ~ Sincerely, ~ The Spool team ...Less spool : 1-million : facebook : instapaper : techcrunch-disrupt :

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/15/heres-how-to-easily-import-your-spool-bookmarks-into-pocket/

The Next Web ? As we reported earlier, bookmarking startup Spool decided to move on to greener bluer pastures by joining Facebook. The service is shutting down and the team has ...More done a wonderful job of being proactive in sending everyone their archive of bookmarks. ~ Another tool that we?ve covered before that has similar functionality, called Pocket, is offering up an import tool for those of you wondering what to do with your Spool archive. ~ By visiting this page, you can sign up if you don?t have an account, and then upload your Spool file in seconds: ~ Depending on how many bookmarks you import, the process should be pretty fast: ~ Pocket, which was previously called ?Read it Later?, offers an iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and web version of its service. It?s definitely work checking out. ~ If you like what you see, Pocket will also allow you to import your bookmarks from other services, like Instapaper and Delicious. ~ For those of you who will miss Spool, have no fear, it sounds like their work will end up in Facebook?s mobile offerings, which will be something to watch out for. ~ ? Pocket ...Less spool : pocket : facebook : heres :

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/14/facebook-snaps-up-the-team-behind-content-saving-app-spool/

VentureBeat ? Facebook announced this morning that it has acquired the team behind Spool, which developed an app to save content for viewing later, similar to Instapaper and Pocket. ...More ~ A Facebook representative sent along the following statement to VentureBeat: ?The Spool team has deep expertise in mobile software development and a passion for making content easy to consume. We?re excited for the team to join and accelerate their vision at Facebook.? ~ Developing, refresh for updates. ~ Filed under: VentureBeat ...Less spool : facebook : the-spool : facebook : venturebeat :

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