Facebook has acquired a Spool, mobile content-caching startup. Spool was launched in September 2011. Terms of deals were not disclosed by any company.
It does not appear that Facebook integrate Spool into Facebook. So we can say that it is pure talent acquisition. Spool has already been shutdown. When you will try to access the website, it will redirect you to the company blog. Spool allows users to save their favorite articles and videos to their computer, tablet, and phone. Read and watch your content when you have time, even offline.
Spool has also announced that it has shut down the service in a blog post. Spool co-founder Avichal Garg wrote on the company blog:
We started Spool to make content easy to consume on a mobile device. To accomplish this, we built some very sophisticated technology and developed a deep expertise in mobile software development. We firmly believe that solving these problems will be increasingly important as the world accesses the Internet primarily through mobile devices.
We are proud to announce that today we will be pursuing our vision as a part of Facebook. If you were a Spool user, please read the instructions on retaining your bookmarks.
We are extremely excited to accelerate our vision and help Facebook’s users connect and share with the people in their lives. We wouldn’t be in a position to have this sort of impact without our supporters and the Spool community. Please accept a heartfelt thank you for supporting us and for affording us this opportunity.
Sincerely,
The Spool team
