Jul 18th 2013, 19:20, by Zach Miners, IDG News Service
Facebook has acquired certain assets of U.K.-based startup Monoidics, in a move aimed at bolstering the social network's increasingly important array of mobile applications and software.
Monoidics, which is based in London, offers code verification software and quality assurance tools to analyze other companies' code and enhance it, partly by removing bugs or other defects. One tool, for instance, is Monoidics' Infer Static Analyzer, which the company refers to as the first advanced static code analyzer to focus directly on memory safety and security.
Monoidics' engineering staff will be joining Facebook's growing engineering team at its London office once the deal closes, both companies announced Thursday.
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