Google Acquires Bump Technologies

Bump is the mobile app that allows users to share mobile data via fist bump.

Google has been becoming more focused in its product offering recently. Case in point: Discontinuing Google Reader, with Feedburner likely on the chopping block next. While there were plenty of die-hard early adapters for both platforms, the likelihood is that the numbers didn’t justify continuing to maintain either one.

Instead, Google is focusing more on the organizing and sharing of information. Which is why today’s announcement that Google acquired of Bump — the smartphone app that allows you to share information with a fist pump — makes perfect sense.

Said Bump CEO David Leib in an

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