Google buys Bump file sharing app
The company Google doesn't waste time and, when it is not developing its own tools, it is dedicated to buy others already available. This is the case of Bump, a company that develops applications with a couple of curious tools and practices under his belt. A move that will surely bring new features to the Android operating system thanks to Bump technology and its file sharing possibilities.
At the moment the acquisition figures are not known, although some details are known thanks to a statement published in the Bump's official blog. In it they congratulate the decision of Google, affirming that it can do a lot of good to its goal of sharing content with the people you love in an almost magical way, although through mathematical processes, based on algorithms. Something that, according to this post, Google knows very well.
The interesting thing is that, in this case, after the acquisition of the company, the tools Bump and Flock will continue to work as before, allowing users to share content by bumping mobiles or creating albums sets intelligent And these are the main and surprising functions of these applications.For its part, Bump offers the possibility of sharing images, sounds, videos, contacts, etcSimply add the other user to contacts and bump the terminals Something similar to the system NFC , but through Internet and very reliably. Meanwhile, the Flock application gives the option of creating a common album for several users and automatically detecting which photos have been taken from different terminals but in the same event, allowing everyone to have access to that content from their own smartphones without having to ask for share the pictures with each other.
Really practical issues that could well be integrated into a future version of the Android operating system, either as one more function or a app pre-installed Although Google may have other plans for technology developed by Bump, applying to other issues such as content synchronization, sharing functions in addition to content, or the integration of these possibilities in Google applications to share maps,documents, etc.Possibilities that have not been revealed but that can give a lot of play.
For now we will have to wait and see what results this acquisition brings, although it is appreciated that, at least for now, the applications Bump and Flock keep working and giving the same service to users. And it is that Google has no problem closing services that do not finish working or are not profitable even if they are known, as happened to Google Reader. From Bump urge you to stay tuned to their blog, indicating that there will be news soon. Meanwhile, from Google they have not made any declaration of intent, so we can only wait to know the result of this acquisition.
