The engineer behind Canadian startup Acrylic said
Friday that he was closing up his one-man shop and joining the design
team at leading social network Facebook.
Facebook confirmed that it has bought Acrylic
in an "acqui-hire" that brings on board founder Dustin MacDonald, the
creator of mobile gadget applications for newsfeeds and digital wallets.
"Facebook is an invaluable service that we
all use daily, and a company I believe is one of the most innovative and
important around today," MacDonald said in a blog post announcing his
move to California.
"After visiting late last year, I discovered
that we shared many of the same core product design goals and
principles, and it soon became obvious that it was a natural fit."
Acrylic's best-known applications -- Wallet
and Newsfeed -- were not acquired by Facebook in the deal. Buying
promising startups for the talent and not its products has become common
in the competitive Internet technology world.
Facebook recently bought startups Spool and
TagTile in "talent acquisitions" aimed at helping it stay in synch with
users as they shift increasingly to using smartphones and tablet
computers.
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