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Facebook have been using face.com for face detection and recognition for a while. I guess they were happy enough with the results that they wanted control of the technology (and/or to stop others from using it)

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Could it be that the license to process the volume facebook has in mind is near or higher than the price of the company? I don't know the price model for the face API but it's not unreasonable to consider a tipping point.

Probably not. It's so far been a symbiotic relation - face.com needed facebook as much as facebook needed face.com.

Facebook is probably making sure that this symbiotic relation is not going to be threatened by a competitor buying face.com

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