{"id":55973,"date":"2018-01-03T06:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55973"},"modified":"2018-01-03T06:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T06:37:33","slug":"apple-just-bought-canadian-software-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-just-bought-canadian-software-startup.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Just Bought This Canadian Software Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Apple Just Bought This Canadian Software Startup<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple just bought a Canadian startup that specializes in creating software development tools for coders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Buddybuild, which disclosed the acquisition on Tuesday in a blog post, said its staff will join Apple\u2019s Xcode engineering group. Xcode is the name of Apple\u2019s (AAPL, +1.71%) suite of software development tools used by third-party coders to build apps for Apple products like the iPhone, Mac computers, and Apple Watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Buddybuild was founded in 2015 and has about 40 employees, according to the startup\u2019s LinkedIn page. The Vancouver-based startup raised nearly $7.6 million, and its advisors include fellow Canadian Stewart Butterfield, the founder and CEO of the popular workplace chat service Slack, according to financial tracking service PitchBook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe\u2019ve always been proud to be a Canadian company, so we\u2019re also pleased that we will be staying right here in Vancouver \u2014 a hotbed of developer and engineering talent,\u201d Buddybuild said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Coders use Buddybuild\u2019s software tools to create apps in a so-called agile development method, in which new features are rapidly created, released, and then frequently tweaked over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Although developers could use Buddybuild\u2019s tools to build apps for Google\u2019s (GOOG, +1.78%) competing Android operating system, they will no longer be able to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAs of today, we are no longer accepting new customers,\u201d Buddybuild said in a statement. \u201cExisting Free Starter plans and Android app development will be discontinued on March 1, 2018.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/01\/02\/apple-canadian-software-buddybuild\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-just-bought-canadian-software-startup.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Just Bought This Canadian Software Startup Apple just bought a Canadian startup that specializes in creating software development tools for coders. Buddybuild, which disclosed the acquisition on Tuesday in a blog post, said its staff will join Apple\u2019s Xcode engineering group. Xcode is the name of Apple\u2019s (AAPL, +1.71%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[113270,113271,113274,113269,113272,113273],"class_list":["post-55973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-acquistions","tag-apple-deals","tag-apple-developer","tag-apple-just-bought-this-canadian-software-startup","tag-apple-software","tag-apple-xcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}