Google closes Bump and Flock

Both Android and iOS applications Bump and Flock will no longer be available at the end of the month. But development teams working on “new projects “in Google.

As Yahoo, Google's acquisition strategy is designed to build more new services but rather to integrate skills to develop new tools. In this context, we learn that Google will close Bump and Flock. The best known of these tools, Bump, can easily share data between two Smartphones by bumping against each other.

The peculiarity of the system is that it does not use NFC. The application detects the sensor information from the Smartphone when "bump" and sends them to a server where an algorithm will analyze and find the same characteristics on the other terminal. Once identified two Smartphones, can exchange data between them. Bump was a resounding success with over 100 million downloads.

David Lieb , CEO of Bump that in September they had announced that their team would integrate Google Bump to continue their work and help users to share information via their mobile device. They are now focused on their new projects within Google and decided to terminate Bump and Flock.

On January 31, Bump and Flock will be removed from the online stores like App Store and Google Play. After this date, none of these two applications will no longer work and all data stored therein will be erased. Hence it means that users of both applications have 30 days to export their data and store it elsewhere.

Google acquires a start-up Bump to improve Android

Google confirmed the acquisition of the start-up “Bump”. Founded in 2008, it publishes an application that makes it easy to share data between two Smartphones by bumping against each other Bump is an editor application that enables the sharing of data between two Smartphones by simply rattling. Google should incorporate all or part of this technology to Android and, or perhaps some Smartphones. The peculiarity of the system is that it does not use NFC. The application detects the sensor information from the Smartphone when "bump" and sends them to a server where an algorithm will analyze and find the same features on the other end. Once identified the two Smartphones, data exchange can take place. Bump was a great success with over 100 million downloads. Last year, the company launched a photo sharing service called Flock. Google has not revealed its plans for the use of these technologies, but it is quite likely to be used either for Android or for some of its services. It may use it as an exclusive feature on the Motorola Smartphones! Bump will continue to operate normally, for the moment and can be read on the blog of the start-up. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed, but a web source quotes that a sum of between 30 and 60 million.