Facebook acquires Bangalore based Little Eye Labs

The social networking site, Facebook has acquired Banglore-based start up Little Eye Labs. Little Eye is a tool that helps Android app developers to measure, analyze and optimize their apps. It helps visualize the app’s behavior and estimates the app’s power, memory and network data consumption trends.

• This is Facebook’s first acquisition of an Indian company.

Benefits to Facebook: The Little Eye Labs technology will help in improving Facebook’s Android code base and make it more efficient and high-performing. The entire Little Eye Labs team will move to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, where they would leverage the social networking giant’s infrastructure to improve the performance of their apps. 

About Little Eye Lab

• Founded in 2012 by four Bangalore-based technology professionals – Giridhar Murthy, Kumar Rangarajan, Satyam Kandula, Lakshman Kakkirala after working at companies such as Apple, IBM, HP and Yahoo.

Known to build performance analysis and to monitor tools that identify and fix performance problems for Android apps developers.