Thing Labs - Ownership and Business Overview

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Thing Labs Ownership

Who owns Thing Labs?

Thing Labs is owned by AOL. It was acquired on September 28, 2010.

Thing Labs Business Overview

Where is Thing Labs headquartered?

Thing Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

What sector is Thing Labs in?

Thing Labs is an internet software and services company.

When was Thing Labs founded?

Thing Labs was founded in 2008.

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Thing Labs, Inc.

2 Mint Plaza, Suite 602,
San Francisco, California 94103
United States,
(415)868-5227

Thing Labs, Inc is the San Francisco-based company behind Brizzly, a simple, fun way to talk and share with friends and family online. Thing Labs' products include Brizzly Picnics (a group chat interface with pictures, video and more), the Brizzly Guide (the best way to find out what people are talking about on the Web), the Brizzly reader (for Twitter and Facebook) and Brizzly for iPhone. During their tenure at Google, co-founders Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell were part of the founding team behind Google Reader, now the most widely-used feed aggregator in the world.


Company Summary

SECTOR

Internet Software and Services

Established

2008

Former Name

Plinky, Inc.

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