Service face.com will be purchased Facebook, this was announced on the official blog of the company that creates applications for face recognition.
Face.com has created several well-known facial recognition and photo applications, including for mobile devices. The company also gives permission for the use of its technologies to third parties. Face.com technologies will probably be integrated into the social network, then users will be able to transfer photos from phones or other mobile devices directly to their Facebook account, assign them tags and process them.
The amount of the transaction has not yet been advertised, some sources call the amount reaching up to 100 million US dollars. We are talking about the purchase of both technology and all the capacities of the company, including the preservation of the working team.