Path is a mobile social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service that launched in November 2010. Path has announced that they have made a partnership with Sprint that will let Sprint customers download the application to their phone without having to find it in the Google Play application store. This will be applied to the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, and Kyocera Torque smartphones distributed by Sprint.
Google has acquired Wavii, a company that has developed a natural language processing app used for creating status updates for your favorite politicians, gadgets, and celebrities. The value of the transaction is rumored to be at over $30 million, according to TechCrunch. Apparently Apple outbid Google for the acquisition of Wavii.
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Earlier this week Adobe acquired Behance, a New York based company where professionals can showcase their creative portfolios. Behance has around 1 million members and they host over 3 million projects.
Twitter has hired the team from Cabana. Cabana is a team of developers that is known for creating visually stunning mobile applications. The terms of the deal are unknown, but we do know that Twitter was mostly interested in the talent. The team will be joining Twitter and Cabana as a company will be shutting down effective December 1st.
In April 2011, Kevin Rose started working full-time at a mobile development company called Milk. Milk launched a food and restaurant recommendation app called Oink, which was downloaded about 150,000 times in its first month as a free app. Rose is known for launching the social bookmarking website Digg.com and being a host of the popular podcast called Diggnation. Google has hired Kevin Rose through some sort of acqui-hire deal.
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Yesterday I wrote about how Path was caught stealing personal information through their mobile app and uploading it to their servers. Today Path acknowledged that they designed the “Add Friends” feature wrong and apologized. Path 2.0.6 was released to the Apple App Store today and it now allows people to opt in or out of sharing phone contacts with their servers.
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Arun Thampi is a developer that was looking for ways to port photo software Path to Mac OS X. However he noticed that some data was being sent from the Path iPhone app to the company’s servers. After diving in a bit more, he realized that the Path app was collecting his whole address book including full names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. All of this information was being uploaded to Path’s central servers. The app was not notifying people that information was being collected though.
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Path is a “smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love” including the music you are listening to, where you are, when you wake up, when you sleep, etc. You can also share photos and videos on public networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook directly from Path. Path was founded by Dave Morin and he refused to sell his company to Google for $100 million when he was offered.
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