Alphabet acquires Slide

Alphabet acquired Slide, a transaction announced in August 2010.

Slide operates in Social, is based in United States. Slide was a social-technology company (led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin) that built widely used social apps and games reaching tens of millions of people. Google acquired the team to make its own services more socially aware and extend social features across Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa, and YouTube.

Strengthen Google's social capabilities and bring social experience-building talent in-house.

Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of millions of people across many platforms, and we've already built strong social elements into products like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa and YouTube. As the Slide team joins Google, we'll be investing even more to make Google services socially aware and expand these capabilities for our users across the web.David Glazer, Engineering Director, Google

Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.

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