{"id":11320,"date":"2012-06-05T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2012-06-05T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:02:54","slug":"google-buys-instant-messaging-firm-meebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/05\/google-buys-instant-messaging-firm-meebo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys instant messaging firm Meebo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Google has agreed to buy the online messaging firm Meebo, a move expanding the Internet giant&#8217;s capabilities for instant sharing of web pages using social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal, announced Monday on the Meebo company blog, were not disclosed. However, a report last month by the Dow Jones site All Things Digital said the price would be around US$100m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!,&#8221; the company blog said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For more than seven years we&#8217;ve been helping publishers find deeper relationships with their users and to make their sites more social and engaging. Together with Google, we&#8217;re super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meebo, a privately held company, claims to reach almost half the US Internet population, in part with its &#8220;Meebo bar&#8221; which allows users to click to comment or share a Web page using a social network.<\/p>\n<p>The Meebo bar can be customised and added to any page without modifying the programming codes of the website, according to the firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to buy the online messaging firm Meebo, a move expanding the Internet giant&#8217;s capabilities for instant sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[733,2535,2255,2256],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-malawi-news","tag-google","tag-meebo","tag-nokia","tag-nokia-lumia-900"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}