据纽约时报消息，社交网络技术公司Angstro当地时间周四发表博客文章称，该公司已经被Google收购。Google证实了这一消息。

Angstro的产品包括Noteworthy News，该产品发布与用户职业社交网络中的人或公司相关的新闻。

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Angstro创始人之一罗希特·卡哈尔(Rohit Khare)周四在一篇博客文章中简要地提到公司被收购的问题，“我们在这里的工作已经结束，对在Google的工作充满期望”。

Google证实了收购Angstro的消息，但没有披露将如何使用Angstro的技术。

Angstro是Google本月收购的第四家公司。Google本月收购了社交游戏开发公司Slide、虚拟商品网络支付技术公司Jambool和可视化购物引擎Like.com。

分析师指出，Google可能推出以游戏为主的社交网络，挑战Facebook在社交网络领域的霸主地位。

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Google continues to expand its social expertise with the acquisition of Angstro, a small social networking start-up.

Angstro builds apps to easily exchange information among social services across the Web, pulling in data from social sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Its co-founder, Rohit Khare, said in a blog post on Friday that he had joined Google, presumably to work on a rumored social network project. Google, which is staying mum about its social ambitions, confirmed the acquisition and hiring of Mr. Khare but would not comment on which product he would be working on.

“While our work here may be done, the struggle for open, interoperable social networks is still only just beginning, and I’m looking forward to working on that in my new role at Google,” Mr. Khare wrote.

Google has spent the summer piecing together a puzzle of social networking companies, technologies and engineers.

Over the past few months, it has invested in Zynga, which makes online games that people play on social networks, and acquired Jambool, which builds apps, virtual goods and virtual currency for social networks.

Google also acquired Slide, which makes apps for social networks, and Max Levchin, a Slide and PayPal co-founder, now works at Google. Earlier this year, it bought Aardvark, for getting questions answered by people in your social network.（source：nytimes/sohu）

拓展：rohitkhare的博客声明

Almost four years ago I set out to solve a deceptively simple problem: 95% of the Google Alerts I received about the entrepreneur Adam Rifkin were about the Hollywood movie director instead.

I worked with Salim Ismail, another “pub/sub” pioneer with a disturbing doppelgänger to co-found Ångströ and unlock the power of your social graph.

With the help of investors like CommerceNet and advisors such as Avery Lyford, our team shipped apps to discover hot new photos on Facebook, improve Caller ID by using LinkedIn profiles, adding style and links to Twitter, create a real-time social address book, and a slew of other services (some of which are open source).

On the warm summer evening of August 20th in West Hollywood on the world-famous Sunset Strip, however, our original quest to disambiguate Rifkins came to a head. As anyone can tell from our incontrovertible photographic evidence, Ångströ is clearly separating the director of LOOK from the director of 106 Miles!

Salim and I would like to thank everyone who was part of the adventure — not least, the thousands of users and beta testers who helped define our products and inspired our whole team.

While our work here may be done, the struggle for open, interoperable social networks is still only just beginning, and I’m looking forward to working on that in my new role at Google.