Microsoft will buy iOS developer for $100 million

Microsoft will acquire developer iOS and Android for creating your own calendar application for mobile operating systems. As explained by the sources to purchase the company more profitable, than to start from scratch.

Microsoft will acquire the company Sunrise Atelier, Inc. developer calendars for devices on iOS and Android. The transaction amount is USD 100 million. Microsoft has postal addition, which includes a built-in calendar. However, users are not accustomed to programs that combine several functions under the agenda requires a separate, informed sources.

To purchase the developer is more profitable than producing a program from scratch, writes Bloomberg. Previously, Microsoft acquired the company - developer for iOS and Android. In December 2014 it was a manufacturer of mobile e-mail service Acompli Inc., with the help of which appeared postal addition Outlook.

Microsoft acquires companies to create applications, but refuses operating systems that have become unprofitable. As it was written in the Days.Roux, Microsoft announced the cessation of production of tablets with Windows RT. The company will not issue a Nokia Lumia 2520, Surface 2 on the basis of this version of the operating system.

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