Chegg recently acquired college-centric online social platform, CourseRank, which allows students to rank and comment on institutions, professors and classes.
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Facebook has since acquired other mobile-centric startups such as Parse, a service that helps companies build mobile applications.
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Linux acquired 12 million customers, all at the leading edge of Web-centric computing.