{"id":16104,"date":"2015-07-22T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230991"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:08:30","slug":"google-buys-pixate-to-strengthen-mobile-app-prototyping-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-buys-pixate-to-strengthen-mobile-app-prototyping-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys Pixate to strengthen mobile app prototyping, design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_164381\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/11\/Salesforce-mobile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/11\/Salesforce-mobile-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Google acquired mobile design and prototyping firm Pixate this week\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google acquired mobile design and prototyping firm Pixate this week<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google quietly acquired Pixate for an undisclosed sum this week. The company, which offers a platform that helps developers and design and prototype mobile apps, may help Google bolster the UX of its own apps while helping it expand the range of services already offered to developers.<\/p>\n<p>A post on the Pixate blog written by chief executive Paul Colton confirmed the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur small team at Pixate has some really big ideas, and with the help of Google we\u2019ll be able to bring those ideas to the design community at scale. We\u2019ve become an essential part of the workflow for tens of thousands of designers, and are excited about expanding our mission at Google to reach millions of product teams worldwide,\u201d Colton explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting today we\u2019re making Pixate Studio free and dramatically reducing the cost of the Pixate cloud service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Google said \u201cPixate adds to our ongoing effort to develop new design and prototyping tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pixate\u00a0said it counts\u00a0companies like Apple, Disney and Amazon as past customers. The company\u2019s services will no doubt complement the cloud-based testing service for Android apps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/05\/29\/google-unveils-cloud-based-testing-lab-to-combat-android-fragmentation\/\">unveiled earlier this year<\/a> at the I\/O conference. The service, based on Appurify\u2019s technology \u2013 an acquisition it announced at the conference last year, allows developers to run their applications on simulated versions of thousands of different Android devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google quietly acquired Pixate for an undisclosed sum this week. The company, which offers a platform that helps developers and design and prototype mobile apps, may help Google bolster the UX of its own apps while helping it expand the range of services already offered to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,3042,2432,344,1976,3043,3044,3045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-app-development","category-content-applications","category-google","category-news-analysis","category-paul-colton","category-pixate","category-prototype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}