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Google buys app, shuts down iPhone version

Google Inc. has acquired reMail, which develops e-mail search applications for smart phones, and promptly shut it down for Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone.

The move likely marks another skirmish in the escalating war between the two Silicon Valley giants.

Google of Mountain View hasn’t discussed the purchase publicly — and no one’s disclosed the price — but ReMail revealed the purchase and decision to discontinue the iPhone app on its blog.

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Google Acquires iPhone Search Application reMail

Google on Wednesday acquired reMail, a popular iPhone application that provides “lightning fast” full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts.

Terms of the deal were not released. ReMail may not have been a household name, but the app received critical praise and had a small, but dedicated group of users. So what will Google do with this app, will it just kill the technology or has the search giant got something else up its sleeve? Here’s what’s going on:

Back to the Mother ship

Gabor Cselle, reMail’s founder will be heading to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California where he’ll join the Gmail team as a product manager. Cselle has made improving e-mail his life’s works so far. The reMail founder was once the vice president of engineering at Xobni, the popular social networking sidebar for Microsoft Outlook. Cselle should feel right at home with Google since he’s worked on the Gmail team before.

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