California based Square Inc., a merchant service aggregator and mobile payment company, has announced the acquisition of two Ex-Googler's photo sharing application start-up Viewfinder.
Viewfinder is a photo sharing platform that enables people to organize, share and relieve their most loved memories with their loved ones and so. Company was founded in 2012 and is based in New-York. It was founded by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, former ex-Googlers, and are known to develop GIMP in 90's. The photo sharing application of viewfinder was part social and part utility based. Application followed a "jump-scroll" type interface, which helped users easily search their own photo history.
Viewfinder team will now work from Square's New-York office. Square is expecting to triple the size of engineering team by end of 2014. As per Square's CTO Bob Lee, he personally know both co-founders of Viewfinder when they were working for Google Inc. As per the same update of Square, complete team of Viewfinder is very talented with a personal experience touch present.
Viewfinder team will work on "Seller-Initiatives" out of New-York office, possible the newer seller initiative "Seller Market", a way to shop online from local stores. It may see a new app soon, with viewfinder team in development.
As of now Viewfinder app will be running but no new updates will be released.
Viewfinder is a photo sharing platform that enables people to organize, share and relieve their most loved memories with their loved ones and so. Company was founded in 2012 and is based in New-York. It was founded by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, former ex-Googlers, and are known to develop GIMP in 90's. The photo sharing application of viewfinder was part social and part utility based. Application followed a "jump-scroll" type interface, which helped users easily search their own photo history. Viewfinder team will now work from Square's New-York office. Square is expecting to triple the size of engineering team by end of 2014. As per Square's CTO Bob Lee, he personally know both co-founders of Viewfinder when they were working for Google Inc. As per the same update of Square, complete team of Viewfinder is very talented with a personal experience touch present.
Viewfinder team will work on "Seller-Initiatives" out of New-York office, possible the newer seller initiative "Seller Market", a way to shop online from local stores. It may see a new app soon, with viewfinder team in development.
As of now Viewfinder app will be running but no new updates will be released.
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