You can’t label it a Web operating system. Don’t refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey “acquired.” The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the first acquisition for the social networking utility based in Palo Alto, Calif. Ross and Hewitt, the two men who’ve become famous for creating the Firefox open source browser, are now employees of Facebook.
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Facebook Snaps Up Firefox Founders’ Startup Parakey
Posted by: Fred J. Aun July 20, 2007 11:42 AMYou can’t label it a Web operating system. Don’t refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey “acquired.” The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the first acquisition for the social networking utility based in Palo Alto, Calif. Ross and Hewitt, the two men who’ve become famous for creating the Firefox open source browser, are now employees of Facebook.