App Developer: Facebook Tried To Bully Me Into An Acqui-Hire

[![][1]][2]As [Facebook's stock continues to plummet][3], are executives getting desperate? Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of [App.net][4], thinks so. Caldwell [blogged about a recent meeting with several Facebook executives][5]. He thought it was a friendly chat and demonstration of an application he developed on the Facebook platform. However, Caldwell claims that Facebook said his product was competition to its [app center][6] and that the company tried to bully him into being acquired.

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