Twitter acquires malware security firm Dasient
Microblogging site Twitter has acquired Dasient, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of spam and malware protection services, for an undisclosed sum.
“Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter”, Dasient wrote Monday on its blog.
“By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world’s largest real-time information network. As part of this merger, Dasient is winding down its business and is no longer able to accept new customers”, the company wrote. Dasient will be integrated into Twitter’s “revenue engineering team because they have a deep understanding of advertising-platform security issues,” Rachael Horwitz, a spokesperson for Twitter, told Mashable.com.
