Google’s $30 Million Dollar Acquisition

Acquisition season is open, in the past few weeks Facebook has acquired Parse, Spaceport.io and Osmeta, All 3 companies heavily involved with mobile development. Not to be outdone Google beats out Apple and  acquires another start-up Wavii,  for over $30 million.

Wavii a Seattle based company allows it’s users to keep up with everything they care about in a personalized newsfeed, It automatically creates status updates for your favorite politicians, celebrities, gadgets and more, in the same way you would follow your friends on Facebook.

Finally confirmed the other day on Wavii’s own website they have changed their logo to mimic the colors of Google’s own and posted the following message

“You probably know us best for our app that takes the deluge of information streaming across the web and condenses it into fast, fun updates. While we won’t continue to offer this particular service, we’ll be using our natural language research at Google in ways that may be useful to millions of people around the world.

To all of our loyal Wavii users, we owe you a big thanks for all of your feedback and involvement throughout this journey. We look forward to taking our technology to the next level and delighting you with what we come up with next!”

Founded by a former Microsoft Employee Adrian Aoun raised close to $2 million in seed funding in 2009 to form Wavii.