A young startup specializing in Android smartphone lock screens that
anticipate what "app" a user might want at any give moment said Monday
it has been bought by Twitter.
The acquisition comes about a year after the launch of Cover, which said its free application, which hit the virtual shelves of Google Play`s online shop in October, has reached hundreds of thousands of users.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Cover team has joined San Francisco-based Twitter, according to the startup.
"We built a replacement for Android`s default lock-screen that makes our phones easier to use by adapting to our context - providing fast access to the right apps at the right time," Cover said in a blog post.
"Twitter, like Cover, believes in the incredible potential of Android."
The take-over indicates that Twitter is keen to make its popular one-to-many messaging service ever more enticing to people with smartphones powered by Google-backed Android software.
An IDC survey released in February found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the final three months of last year, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered.
For the full year, Android`s market share was 78.6 percent to 15.2 percent for Apple`s iOS, 3.3 percent for Windows Phone and 1.9 percent for BlackBerry, IDC said.
The acquisition comes about a year after the launch of Cover, which said its free application, which hit the virtual shelves of Google Play`s online shop in October, has reached hundreds of thousands of users.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Cover team has joined San Francisco-based Twitter, according to the startup.
"We built a replacement for Android`s default lock-screen that makes our phones easier to use by adapting to our context - providing fast access to the right apps at the right time," Cover said in a blog post.
"Twitter, like Cover, believes in the incredible potential of Android."
The take-over indicates that Twitter is keen to make its popular one-to-many messaging service ever more enticing to people with smartphones powered by Google-backed Android software.
An IDC survey released in February found Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments in the final three months of last year, bolstered by a 40 percent jump in the number of handsets delivered.
For the full year, Android`s market share was 78.6 percent to 15.2 percent for Apple`s iOS, 3.3 percent for Windows Phone and 1.9 percent for BlackBerry, IDC said.
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