![]() They’ve recently announced on their blog that the 2 apps will be shut down by the end of this month. The company raised nearly $20 million and enjoyed high download rates, but failed to monetize successfully. The team joined Yahoo! in their New York city office to reimagine Yahoo!’s storytelling experience, as for the Qwiki app, it is still supported.īump: Acquired by Google for around $35 millionīump Technologies was the maker of Bump, which let users tap phones together to share contacts and other files, and Flock which was a collaborative photo-sharing app. In July Yahoo bought Qwiki, a New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically. Qwiki: Acquired by Yahoo for around $50 million Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired by Apple to help enhance how iOS devices catalog and deliver social data, after previously raising a $10 million round in November of 2012 from Index Ventures. Onavo’s Tel-Aviv office will remain open for business and will become Facebook’s new Israeli office.Ĭue: Acquired by Apple for around $50 million Onavo’s data compression technology will play a central role in Facebook’s mission to connect more people to the internet, and their analytic tools will help them provide efficient mobile products. For example, Onavo Extend compresses all the data you download over 3G, EDGE and LTE, including images and texts. The apps help people save money through more efficient use of data, and also helps developers, large and small, design better experiences for people. Onavo: Acquired by Facebook for $120 millionĪnother company from Israel, Onavo developed a series of mobile utility apps, and later launched Onavo Insights, a mobile market intelligence service based on real engagement data. MapMyFitness owns one of the largest mobile fitness communities out there, with 20 million registered users, tens of millions of downloads across its mobile devices and 9 million monthly active users. MapMyFitness: Acquired by Under Armour for $150 millionĪpparel giant Under Armour agreed to buy MapMyFitness for $150 million. Moving forward athena will work with the Epocrates team to develop “new mobile workflows” that initially might include ones that focus on care coordination, provider-to-provider communication, and patient engagement tools. ![]() Israel tax authorities are also happy of Google’s aquisition, as they’ve earned $370 million in tax revenue on the sale of the navigation app.Įpocrates: Acquired by athenahealth for $293 millionĮpocrates is a medical app provider for the clinical community. The company’s staff remained in their Raanana headquarters rather than relocating to Menlo Park, California and Google also left Waze to run as a separate service and an independent company. Waze is a community based mapping, traffic & navigation app with over 50 million users that got acquired by Google on June 11, 2013. Waze: Acquired by Google for $966 million Let’s take a look at some of the biggest transactions that took place in 2013: The year that has passed was certainly interesting for the mobile app space, a lot of companies got bought, some for their technology, some for their teams and some for both.
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