Google Acquires reMail
Posted at 6:30pm EST on 02/17/2010
reMail announced today that they are being acquired by Google.
So what is reMail?
reMail was started by Gabor Cselle in November 2008. Gabor has been working on email for years: He built Gmail features while at Google, did email research in grad school, and was the VP Engineering at Xobni. Gabor has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.
reMail was part of YCombinator’s winter 2009 batch and has raised additional funding from Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh, who invented Gmail back at Google and are now co-founders of FriendFeed (recently acquired by Facebook).
Here is a blip from the announcement for what is actually happening with the acquisiont:
You might be wondering what will happen with reMail’s product. Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail’s iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store. reMail is an application on your phone. If you already have reMail, it will continue to work. We’ll even provide support for you until the end of March, and we’ve enabled all paid reMail features for you: You can activate these by clicking “Restore Purchases” inside the app. reMail downloads email directly from your email provider to your phone, and your personal information, passwords, and email are never sent to or stored on our servers.
