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"The tools and personell pickup is yet another one in its Social buying frenzy.\n\n  \nAngstro's Khare\nI don&amp;#8217;t think a Friday has gone by this summer without Google \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGOOG\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t announcing a pickup of some sort, mostly related to social networking.\nToday&amp;#8217;s haul is Angstro, a startup founded by Rohit Khare, a social and search expert. \u00A0The move was announced on Angstro&amp;#8217;s website and confirmed by Google today. \u00A0Khare laid out the company&amp;#8217;s investors and social creds..\nWith the help of investors like\u00A0CommerceNet and advisors such as\u00A0Avery 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\u00A0open source).\nGoogle President of Engineering Vic Gundotra\u00A0was\u00A0instrumental\u00A0in bringing Khare on board\u00A0according\u00A0to an LATimes source, telling Khare that Google was serious about Social.\u00A0\u201CHe has built a lot of interesting pieces that would be useful to anyone building a social network,\u201D the person said.\nAngstro&amp;#8217;s products can also be helpful in search, which can&amp;#8217;t hurt Google.\nA dollar figure wasn&amp;#8217;t put on the purchase, but Google has been on a social spending spree this summer, picking up \u00A0Slide, Jambool,\u00A0Metaweb and Like.com in recent Fridays."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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