Google officially buying social startup Meebo

 


Google Inc.has agreed to acquire Meebo Inc., a privately-held social platform, the two companies said Monday. The deal will enable Google to expand its social networking service. Although no details have been officially disclosed, the price tag is said to be in the range of $100 million, according to an earlier report by AllThingsD. Founded in 2005, Meebo's main product is a toolbar that sits at the bottom of a publisher's website. It lets publishers display pop-up messages to users, integrates social media sites including Twitter and Facebook and offers a slot for advertising on the left-hand side.
 "We are always looking for better ways to help users share content and connect with others across the Web, just as they do in real life. With the Meebo team’s expertise in social publisher tools, we believe they will be a great fit with the Google+ team. We look forward to closing the transaction and working with the Meebo team to create more ways for users to engage online,” Google said.
In its blog, Meebo said, "Together with Google, we're super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike."
I think its time facebook tighten their nuts!!!!.

Google interested to buy Meebo for $100 million

Google is in talks to acquire Meebo for about $100 million.Meebo was founded in 2005 as a messaging app for the browser, a product that still exists as Meebo Messenger. Meebo grabbed a huge number of users with its early web-based IM client, because the service let users chat across different chat platforms like MSN, AOL and Yahoo. Meebo started out as a Web-based instant messaging service that emulates services like Yahoo IM but requires no downloading or installation. Developers can create applications and services to run on the architecture, and the service also provides "Rooms" designed to make it easy to share media and Web sites.Meebo enables a lot of different social interaction and sharing features and also includes mobile version of it's products.Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg did not reply to a request for comment and  Google said it wouldn't comment on rumors.

meebo's CEO Seth sternberg.