Worldwide Tech & Science: Google makes a BOOM, buys Sparrow the most beautiful and intuitive e-mail app for the iOS platform.

Friday, July 20, 2012

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Google makes a BOOM, buys Sparrow the most beautiful and intuitive e-mail app for the iOS platform.

Sparrow a company that's making e-mail beautiful on iOS just got acquired by arch-rival Google. Boom.

Reports suggesting that the entire team was taken for around $25 million.

Press Release: Sparrow

We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!

We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to

provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.

Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that

we think we can better achieve with Google.

We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported

us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better

mail application. While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will

continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.

We had an amazing ride and can't thank you enough.

Full speed ahead!

Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow

We also want to thank our advisors and investors — Loren Brichter, Dave

Morin, John Maeda, Xavier Niel, Jérémie Berrebi — as well as our

friends and family:

Simon Istolainen, Jérémie Kanza, Sacha Cayre, Cedric Gepner, Laurent

Merlinot, Didier Kuhn, Tariq Krim, Christophe Baillon, Laurent Cerveau,

Christophe Giaume, Sebastien Maury, Manuel Colom, Bertrand Guiheneuf

and all of you who have helped us along the way.For all press inquiries,

Sparrow is now part of Google! As a result, our Terms will transition to

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