Twitter has acquired Ueno, a design company, a blog post from firm CEO and Founder Haraldur Thorleifsson said.
Thorleifsson mentioned within the publish that the corporate, which was based in late 2013, first labored with Twitter in 2019, when a buddy of his, Dantley Davis, who labored at Twitter, contacted him for assist.
“The following few months we labored to assist set up a brand new imaginative and prescient and product technique for one of many cornerstone groups at Twitter,” Thorleifsson mentioned within the publish. “After some early hiccups the venture grew to become an enormous success. A lot in order that a number of hours after the manager assessment I bought one other DM from Dantley. This time asking if we’d take into account becoming a member of Twitter.”
After that, Ueno and Twitter continued to work on tasks “on numerous new streams serving to their product and model groups,” based on the publish.
Thorleifsson mentioned within the publish that the pandemic has affected Ueno, and that layoffs occurred. He wrote that over the course of the previous a number of months, his dialog along with his buddy advanced into finally simply asking about merging with the social media large.
In becoming a member of with Twitter, Thorleifsson mentioned he is “proud we’re in a position to go away on a excessive word. I really feel like we gained the company recreation and there have been no extra issues to show. No extra worlds to beat,” based on the publish.
This is not the one acquisition Twitter has made not too long ago. Earlier this week, the corporate introduced its purchase of podcast app Breaker. The app is about to close down Jan. 15 because the founders make their transfer to work with Twitter on the way it’s facilitating public conversations globally.
Breaker’s founders mentioned the world of podcast-hosting apps had grown so considerably within the time because it was shaped 4 years in the past that customers possible would not have a tough time discovering a greater different.
As well as, Twitter bought Squad, an app used to share screens between buddies and hang around just about — a service possible used extra because the pandemic started.
