Could the slicklogin acquisition mean demise of passwords?

The popular shopper, google Inc has gone shopping once again to Israel to pick up one of the unique login features introduced. As the developers say, it may sound insane at start, but slick login was a firm which used unique sounds which when played through the speakers of mobile phone or computer will allow the software to identify the person.

The homepage of slicklogin confirming the acquisition by Google

This is considered safe, mentioning that the sound is not audible to human ears and can only be picked up by the microphone or phone. With this acquisition, experts consider this as a demise of password and could very well replace the now used password security.

Although google has implemented the 2-step verification for free, the stick login feature will be a added security option.

SlickLogin announced the acquisition on its website but did not disclose how much the deal was worth.

'Today we`re announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google,' the statement read.

'[Google] shares our core beliefs that logging in should be easy instead of frustrating, and authentication should be effective without getting in the way.

Google has always had a soft spot for Israel and it was revealed with their recent acquisitions like speadsheet company iRows, LabPixies entertainment, and mapping service Waze.

We are just gazing at the stars on what or when this new authentication is going to come in effect!

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, February 18, 2014

18 month old Little Eye Labs acquired by Facebook

The Little Eye Labs, a firm that develops performance analysis tools for mobile apps has been acquired by Facebook, the Little Eye Labs becomes the first Indian startup to be acquired by Facebook.

Facebook has now acquired the Little Eye Labs, the startup in India,  a company building performance analysis and monitoring tools for mobile app developers. The news broke when the company website confirmed the acquisition, the reports were already around that Facebook was holding discussions with two startups in India.

Facebook Likes Little Eye Labs - The Image that is currently on LEL website.

The industry sees this move of facebook to be a step to get itself ahead in the mobile app world as well. Currently the major share is held by giants like Google and Apple. ET reports that the strategy of FB was on tables from 2013 and it has fruited only this year.

The Little Eye Labs acquisition is expected to be in the range of $10-15 mn. Little Eye Labs team will move to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, where it will build analysis tools to help develop apps.

This is first of acquisitions for an Indian company by Facebook. The intentions are clear with facebook as it has also acquired a startup, Parse, which provides Mobile-Backend-As-A-Service.

Little Eye Labs was founded in August 2012 and currently has seven employees.

After the deal was announced, Subbu Subramanian, engineering manager at Facebook, said: "The Little Labs technology will help us to continue improving our Android codebase to make more efficient, higher-performing apps."

An interesting demographics by bidnessetc.com on FB acquisition.

The reports say that twitter had also approaced the The Little Eye Labs for acquisition but just Facebook had a better deal. In a company statement Little Eye Labs they are eager to reach the facebook infrastructure and will also help in boosting their already awesome apps!

The company which is only 18 months old has hit the jackpot which also provides high hopes for the budding firms.

a company building performance analysis and monitoring tools for mobile app developers.

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Apple Acquires "Topsy" for $200million - Access To Twitter Archives From 2006!

Apple acquires the social media analytics company "Topsy" earlier today. The latest move by Apple is being closely watched as it can now get better off its competitors by understanding the market and the comments are also arriving for Apple's move to learn more close details on twitter.

Apple paid more than $200 million for Topsy, the Journal said. The company provides a range of tools to make sense of data across the social Web and use it to divine consumer sentiment. For example, marketers can use Topsy's tools to measure the success of ad campaigns, identify thoughts and opinions over time, and search and analyze hashtags across years of online chatter.

Topsy is one of the few companies which does have "firehose" access to twitter, that is the full stream of tweets posted to the service. Other competing companies with access include DataSift and Gnip, which analyze and resell the data to customers, the Journal noted.

Topsy has a huge amount of Twitter data at its fingertips. Earlier this year the company announced that it had indexed Twitter's complete archive of public tweets dating back to 2006. That data could let Apple make better use of online social activity in its product development, as companies such as Facebook do now.

Source: Zach Miner @ ComputerWorld
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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, December 03, 2013