Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used

Zynga is acquiring Flock, a beleaguered startup founded in 2005 by Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone, we've confirmed. The deal should be announced shortly. The company has raised nearly $30 million in venture capital, although the last round was closed in 2008. We do not know the terms of the acquisition. Both Google and Twitter were also bidding for Flock, we've heard from one source - perhaps to get Flock's engineering talent, which is very highly regarded. Flock first launched it's social browser in 2005, and we wrote about it in August of that year. At the time, prior to Twitter and the rise of Facebook, "social" meant writing blogs and social bookmarking, and not much else. Flock was not a hit.

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