Facebook bought a few months ago Zenbe Mailbox Products

In the early hours of November 17, Beijing time, Facebook released its e-mail system in Monday, but sources said it had purchased some of the Zenbe's email-related intellectual property rights several months ago and brought its three engineers under its command. October 8, Zenbe announced the closure of e-mail products Zenbe mail. At the time, sources said, the company closed its e-mail business because Facebook bought some of its intellectual property and took several employees away.　　But none of the two companies commented on the issue. Zenbe plans to formally announce a deal with Facebook later in Tuesday.　　Facebook did not buy Zenbe, just bought Zenbe Mail and dug out three engineers associated with the product; Zenbe will stay in New York and continue to develop new products. "You may have heard that Facebook has released a unified communications product," ZENBE chief executive Alain Cheng said in a blog. Happily, we also made a contribution to the project: a few months ago, my company's three engineers joined Facebook. Web communication and collaboration is the beginning of a new wave of innovation, and we are thrilled to be able to join it. "Zenbe is developing a new product called Shindig that can take advantage of Facebook's social graph to allow users to share photos with friends anytime, anywhere."　　The company also plans to develop a Foursquare application called Blacktop and a collaborative tool called Shareflow. Some of Facebook's most recent major product updates have been achieved by acquiring other companies, and several companies have been shut down. In April this year, Facebook acquired the Divvyshot, a start-up company offering photo-sharing services, and hired its start-up team to photos the Facebook release; this summer, Facebook acquired the Hot Potato, a start-up that provided "check-in" services,　　Justin Shaffer, its founder, is responsible for the revision of Facebook Groups, followed by the location of Facebook's Schaffer service places. In addition, Facebook has also acquired start-up companies Nextstop, Drop.io and FriendFeed.　　Blette Thelles (Bret Taylor), one of Frindfeed's founders, is now Facebook's chief technology officer. Facebook is more focused on Zenbe's acquisitions.　　In Monday, Facebook executives said at the press conference that the company had spent more than a year on a mailbox project, and that Zenbe engineers had just joined Facebook for a few months before the product was born. Facebook in a"We are able to confirm that three employees were recruited from Zenbe earlier this year," the statement said. "(Yan Fei)