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Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
- Anonmattymous 13y agoAnd yesterday we were all talking about how it was such a shame that they did the whole Greplin to Cue jump. At least they're doing good for themselves now. I can definitely see how this would fit in with apples calendar, email, tasks and all that other stuff to aggregate your schedule.
- nthitz 13y agoWhen Google acquires a company, the company usually is open about it "Yay we were acquired by Google". When Apple acquires they announce they are shutting down. Interesting difference.
- milesskorpen 13y ago"The company will not be shut down post-acquisition, though it did recently shut down its app."
- cwe 13y agoCheck out their website, sure looks like they're shutting down. http://cueup.com http://cueup.com
- kcorbitt 13y agoI think the OP was referring to "shutting down" in the sense of stopping development on their consumer-facing app. The article likely meant that they weren't "shutting down" in the sense that the employees will still be working together in more-or-less the same organizational structure as pre-acquisition.
- herval 13y agoInterestingly, Google usually shuts down the acquired companies anyway...
- laureny 13y agoThere are plenty of counter examples to your claim: YouTube, Google Maps, Picasa, various companies focused on voice recognition and Google Glass, etc...
- drusenko 13y agoAndroid, Google Analytics, etc etc etc
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoI’m not sure whether those are good examples. Android Inc wasn’t much of a company when they were bought by Google and the initial Google Analytics offering was very different from the service they bought (Urchin). Meanwhile, Google has killed over a hundred services in the last couple of years. Apple has bought several companies that had shipping products and just like Google, Apple didn’t cancel those. Examples are FileMaker, Logic, and Final Cut Pro. After it bought PowerSchools, Shake and Astarte, it kept their products on for many years. Furthermore, it is often said that Apple’s acquisition of NeXT was a reverse takeover.
- badclient 13y agoI can assure you any company anyone acquires will look very different 5 years from acquisition if its still alive.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoAlso, any startup not acquired should look very different 5 years from conception.
- kgarten 13y agoGoogle Glass? As far as I know, Google Glass is originally a Google X project ... they did not acquire a company if I know correctly. They hired some people from the wearable computing field.
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- sremani 13y agoApple is a better run and more profitable company than Google. Even though the optics may not look great to some Open Source nutjobs all in all Apple seem to absorb their acquisitions effectively.
- muglug 13y agoThat announcement yesterday looked a little sad and morose, but a company like that doesn't just go out of business, given all the interest in analysis of real-world user behaviour. Congrats all!
- goronbjorn 13y agoEven though they pivoted to calendar app, I still loved their search functionality. It was the fastest, most relevant search I'd ever used and was genuinely useful. Cheers to Apple on the great acquisition.
- rpledge 13y agoClearly naming your startup after an Apple SVP is a good idea. I'd like to introduce my next startup - Schiller I kid - congrats to the Cue folks
- ameen 13y agoDamn, I'm actually working on a side-project named Ive.
- matthewbaker 13y agoThis is great news. Congrats to CUE!
- nsxwolf 13y agoFigured as much. Cue's abrupt and terse announcement had a very Appley vibe to it.
- ericfrenkiel 13y agocongrats Daniel, Robby, and team!
- badclient 13y agoAcquisition amount makes little sense. If I'd to venture a guess I'd say the actual amount is closer to 2x money raised with the rest in performance based incentives that no one expects to meet.
- joshdance 13y agoThis makes much more sense than just shutting down. Congrats to the Cue guys (if this rumor is correct).
- jgalt212 13y agoGreat tech that had yet to find a market. Now they have access to one of the biggest markets around.
- olegp 13y agoIt's interesting that most of the comments in response to this are about how great Greplin was. What was it about Greplin search that appealed to people so much? If it was so popular, why did the company pivot away from it? I have my own theories, but would be great to hear from folks directly.
- OoTheNigerian 13y agoGreplin was useful, worked and helped several times.
- olegp 13y agoDid you use it on a regular basis and had it set as your home page or was it useful only when you couldn't find something any other way?
- davezatch 13y agoNot the parent, but I found it incredibly useful as well. The thing is, I would always forget it existed, and so its utility was kind of low for me. I was blown away when I first hooked everything up to it, then barely touched it until they pivoted, at which point I lost interest and disconnected all my accounts from them. A shame, but not sure how to solve that problem.
- olegp 13y agoReason I'm curious about how everyone was using Greplin is because we are working on something that addresses the same problem at https://starthq.com https://starthq.com and I think we cracked the "forgetting it's there" problem. Would love to chat more. I followed you on Twitter, so please follow back so I can DM.
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- ronreiter 13y agoDaniel Gross is 21 years old. DAMN