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Facebook is to acquire Snaptu, developer of an app "designed to give people a great mobile experience on a broad range of feature phones."

Snaptu claims that the app runs on 2,500 different devices. Announcing the acquisition in a posting on its blog site, Snaptu said: "Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 percent of mobile users that don't have access to advanced smartphones'¦

"We soon decided that working as part of the Facebook team offered the best opportunity to keep accelerating the pace of our product development. And joining Facebook means we can make an even bigger impact on the world.

Then company said it would be "working hard to offer a richer and more advanced Facebook app on virtually every mobile phone."

Privately held Snaptu is based in London and has offices in Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. It is backed by Sequoia and Carmel Ventures.

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