Google just acquired Sparrow for Gmail

Google just acquired Sparrow for Gmail, the company behind the popular iOS and OS X email client. The team of the company, says CEO Don Sparrow Leca, will join Google's Gmail team "to achieve a larger view - which we think is the best you can achieve with Google." Sparrow raised a small seed round of funding from French VC firm Ventures, Kima in 2011, but took no other investments outside since. Google and Sparrow have released the financial details of the acquisition. Google buys Sparrow for Gmail, while Sparrow says that their applications will remain available at the moment, but according to an email to the company just send their users, the Sparrow, announces no updates on their applications in the short term. The company statement expresses explicitly ... 

 We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!

 While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users. We had an amazing ride and can’t thank you enough. 

Dom Leca 
CEO Sparrow 
 We also want to thank our advisors and investors — Loren Brichter, Dave Morin, John Maeda, Xavier Niel, Jérémie Berrebi — as well as our friends and family: Simon Istolainen, Jérémie Kanza, Sacha Cayre, Cedric Gepner, Laurent Merlinot, Didier Kuhn, Christophe Baillon, Laurent Cerveau, Christophe Giaume, Sebastien Maury, Manuel Colom, Bertrand Guiheneuf and all of you who have helped us along the way.

We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience. Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google. We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application.

Full speed ahead! 

Remains to be seen how long Google plans to support the Mac client Sparrow. Until now, Google does not offer its own native email client for any operating system and considering Google's approach on the web, it seems unlikely that the company will continue to fund the development of an e-mail client desktop. It is also unclear if Google charged for applications Sparrow. The Mac application currently costs $ 9.99 and the IOS client costs $ 2.99. Although the team is locked into the Sparrow Gmail, expects his client and continue to provide services normally. IOS users and Mac OS will be able to enjoy their implementation is expected that soon the rest of Gmail users benefit from the knowledge and the work of this small business.