By Jeffrey Himelson:
Facebook (FB) has yet again made a splash on the acquisition front. It was announced Wednesday afternoon that Facebook bought the video-advertising company LiveRail. The amount has not been officially disclosed, but the consensus estimate is somewhere between $400 million-$500 million. With this acquisition, Mark Zuckerberg’s bold statement of making ads people truly enjoy is seeming less like a pipe dream and more of a plausible reality.