Google Acquires Sparrow To Make Gmail Better

In Googles earnings report yesterday, the company mentioned that they would be making smaller acquisitions throughout the year. One of those acquisitions happened today.

Sparrow, developers of a popular email app for Mac and iOS, was acquired by Google today. Sparrow is already a really cool email application, so it should be interesting to see how Gmail evolves with the acquisition. Sparrow fans will also be happy to know that the software will remain available and they will continue to offer support even while theyre working on new stuff with Google. Unfortunately, both apps will not receive any new features according to Ars Technica.

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