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Facebook only supported 3 or 4 import formats, but Octazen supports at least 21 different services. Maybe they wanted the technology as well as the people who k
by maxklein 17y ago
Facebook only supported 3 or 4 import formats, but Octazen supports at least 21 different services. Maybe they wanted the technology as well as the people who know how to use the technology? Likely cheaper and faster than getting 3 to 4 engineers on the task and then waiting 6 months.
- jfarmer 17y agoI doubt Facebook cares about importing address book from N additional email services -- they're growing at a rate of like 300-500k new users per day, and accelerating. So it seems unlikely that was the driving rationale behind the acquisition.