Socialbakers Acquires Social RSS, A Facebook Feed Reader, Adds Google+ Support

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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
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Social media analytics firm Socialbakers has acquired Social RSS, a popular feed reader app for Facebook. The deal follows on the heels of the company’s earlier acquisition of Checkfacebook.com, which was completed last month. Looks like they’re putting that $2 million they just raised to work.

The company, which says it’s already profitable, is also announcing support for the Google+ service (in addition to previously supported social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn).

Read the rest of the story at TechCrunch Europe.