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21 July 2012| last updated at 08:55AM

Facebook acquires mobile app maker Acrylic



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SAN FRANCISCO: 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. -- AFP

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