{"id":54923,"date":"2012-07-16T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54923"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:54:20","slug":"facebook-scoops-up-spool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/54923-facebook-scoops-up-spool.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook scoops up Spool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Facebook has acquired Spool, a mobile-bookmarking service which focuses on mobile content consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco-based startup has five employees, which have now moved onto Facebook&#8217;s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the acquisition is said to be related to Facebook looking to improve its mobile division, as the buyout is a talent acquisition of the Spool team, not their technology.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited for the team to join and accelerate their vision at Facebook\u201d, a Facebook representative said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57472471-93\/facebook-acquires-mobile-bookmarking-service-spool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/54809-facebook-ipo-blunder-was-criminal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook IPO blunder was \u201ccriminal\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52985-facebook-stock-bouncing-back.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook stock bouncing back<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/52939-facebook-to-buy-facial-recognition-startup.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook to buy facial-recognition startup<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook settles R82.7 million lawsuit\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/52821-facebook-settles-r82-7-million-lawsuit.html\">Facebook settles R82.7 million lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook asks for your number\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52735-facebook-asks-for-your-number.html\">Facebook asks for your number<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s biggest social network acquires bookmarking service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13417,161,13415,13413],"class_list":["post-54923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-acqusition","tag-facebook","tag-social-bookmarking","tag-spool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}