Google for an unknown amount of the start-ups, Apture and Katango, acquired. The internetgigant want the techniques of the two companies for the development of Chrome, and the social network Google+.
Apture has been in existence since 2007 and is a service that enables publishers and bloggers an interactive layer to their website can add. Thus, selecting a piece of text on the website in a pop-up directly for more information on Google and Wikipedia search. Apture is going to say the Chrome team. The current plugins by Apture, which websites like The Financial Times, Reuters, Breeding, Computerworld, and The Economist, will probably next month down, know Techcrunch.
Also Katango is by Google acquired. The start-up is still a year and develops algorithms that ‘the social interaction online. The company gave earlier this year an app for the iPhone which allows the user a message directly via Facebook, e-mail and sms could be send. Katango is the development team of Google+ to strengthen. “We want to help to make Circles smarter,” says Katango in a statement.
It is unclear what Google is for the two services paid. The acquisitions indicate that Google wants to place bets on the web browser Chrome and its social network Google+. Google has a number of projects stopped to focus more on the two services.