MailRank, startup start-up year, specializes in technology that can prioritize email. MailRank Service sort of sequence is the most important emails, so users can focus on content that is really important.
Reported The Times of India and quoted on Thursday (11.17.2011), according to the acquisition agreement, the duo MailRank founder Bryan O'Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount immediately joined Facebook. Both mentioned, Facebook assumes MailRank as a solution to email overload problem.
"We're excited to announce MailRank founders will join Facebook from December. For that, we will stop the private beta version MailRank to focus on the outlook for our new jobs," wrote MailRank in their company's official blog. Yet both Facebook and MailRank, not to mention the value of acquisitions in between.
Seriousness of the Facebook email service developed ambitions also shows up in its expansion efforts in the mobile realm. Earlier this month, Facebook application developer also acquired the Strobe. The company helps developers create and distribute applications that work on devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Some reports said the acquisition Strobe interest due up to the talent of the founder Strobe, Charles Jolley. He is also the creator of SproutCore, an open source framework. Prior to founding Strobe, Charles trusted to handle the development of mobile applications at Apple.
