Facebook
Acquires Pryte to
Help With Internet.org
Facebook has agreed to acquire
Pryte, a mobile data plan firm based in Finland, to
Help With its
Internet.org effort. Terms of the deal were **t immediately disclosed.
Pryte was founded in 2013
With the goal of working
With wireless operators to offer mobile data plans to users on a per app basis rather than forcing people to buy it in bulk. Reuters, which was
first to report the deal, **tes that
Pryte hadn't launched publicly yet and there are fewer than 30 employees on staff
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In a
blog post, Pryte's team wrote that it will be working
With Facebook to
Help With its
Internet.org project to bring the entire world online by making Internet access more affordable and available to everyone.
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