Facebook acquires facial recognition-based Face.com

JMH · Jun 18, 2012

Facebook has been acquiring a lot of companies over the past couple of months. That includes the photo sharing software platform Instagram which Facebook recently bought for $1 billion. Today, it was revealed that Facebook has bought yet another company with a similar name; Face.com.

Launched in 2007 in Israel, Face.com offers software for both desktop and mobile products that can scan a photo to identify a person or persons in that photo. This kind of software would seem to be a perfect match for Facebook, which lets its users "tag" their friends in their photos; specific financial details about this new acquisition were not revealed.

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Facebook acquires facial recognition-based Face.com

JMH

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