Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team
Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google.
In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using the Internet for the first time than there were Americans using the Internet already.
But the computing experience for most of these first-timers, coming online in places like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, is very different from the one many of us grew up with – and not the one that most of Google’s services were originally designed for. Their main (and in most cases, only) “computer” is a low-cost smartphone.
Connectivity is expensive in relatio...