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Google makes a BOOM, buys Sparrow the most beautiful and intuitive e-mail app for the iOS platform.
Sparrow a company that's making e-mail beautiful on iOS just got acquired by arch-rival Google. Boom.
Reports suggesting that the entire team was taken for around $25 million.
Press Release: Sparrow
We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!
We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to
provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that
we think we can better achieve with Google.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported
us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better
mail application. While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will
continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.
We had an amazing ride and can't thank you enough.
Full speed ahead!
Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
CEO
Sparrow
We also want to thank our advisors and investors — Loren Brichter, Dave
Morin, John Maeda, Xavier Niel, Jérémie Berrebi — as well as our
friends and family:
Simon Istolainen, Jérémie Kanza, Sacha Cayre, Cedric Gepner, Laurent
Merlinot, Didier Kuhn, Tariq Krim, Christophe Baillon, Laurent Cerveau,
Christophe Giaume, Sebastien Maury, Manuel Colom, Bertrand Guiheneuf
and all of you who have helped us along the way.For all press inquiries,
Sparrow is now part of Google! As a result, our Terms will transition to
Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy on August 24, 2012.
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