Zenbe confirmed that its employees moved to Facebook a few months ago and "played a small role" in the new Facebook Messages service launched this week.
Facebook revealed its new Message service on Tuesday, a private, one-to-one messaging system aimed at positioning Facebook as a central social hub of informal, social communications through e-mail, text and chat.
There had been speculation for sometime about how Facebook would look to revamp its current messaging services with the company assembling a 15-person engineering team earlier this year; the biggest single Facebook project team to date.
Zenbe, a New York-based startup, is best known for its experimental forms of collaborative communication. Last year, they launched a product called Shareflow, which lets users see a flow of communication around specific topics.
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