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November 29, 2011 04:11 am GMT

Facebook Acquires The Tech Behind WhoGlue, A Company That Sued It In 2009

Screen Shot 2011-11-28 at 3.01.18 PMFacebook has confirmed to us this morning that it did indeed acquire the Baltmore-based software firm WhoGlue earlier this month. WhoGlue builds social networking software for membership organizations (like college alumni networks, for example) and apparently had the fortuityto file a patent on something called"Distributed personal relationship information management system and methods"in 2001, three years before Facebook existed.

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