Google Purchase Social Networking Corporate ‘to beat’ Facebook

August 8, 2010

Internet News, Google’s desire to create a social network to rival Facebook is likely to be realized soon, and it will become a reality.

it is known after Google announced that they had bought online network Slide. Slide company itself is a startup based in San Francisco playing behind or practical applications such as SuperPoke and FunSpace that have become hits on Facebook and other social networking sites.

“This is a very exciting day for me and my team, but it also marks an exciting development for the social Web,” Slide founder Max Levchin said, quoted by AFP on Sunday (08/08/2010).

“This is a great opportunity for both companies to come together and change the way people socialize on the Web,” he added.

Levchin himself an important person in the world of social web, he is one of the founders of the online financial transaction service PayPal, and launched Slide in 2005.

“By merging the Slide to Google, we will invest more to make Google services and extend social, aware of these capabilities to users around the web,” said one of Google’s team David Glazer.

Added to him, Google is trying to develop a social networking platform that is open, transparent and attractive. How to allow users to take full advantage of how technology can bring them closer to friends and family and provides useful information only for them.


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