Chomp has 20 employees and raised just over $2.5 million worth of funding. Their specialty is in the area of app discovery, which we all know is hard to do with the current setup of the App Store. According to rumors, their sources had earlier noted an iTunes/App Store overhaul was in the pipeline, but today they go on to mention senior Chomp staff are already working for Apple:
Our sources say that Chomp CEO Ben Keighran and CTO Cathy Edwards are already at work at Apple. Keighran has joined the iTunes Marketing team and Edwards is now a Senior iTunes Engineer.
Just now, Apple confirmed the acquisition of Chomp to AllThingsD, but didn’t say much of course:
Apple on Thursday confirmed it has acquired San Francisco-based start-up Chomp, which operates a search engine for apps, for an undisclosed amount. Apple declined to elaborate on how it plans to integrate Chomp, other than to say Apple sometimes acquires technology companies and generally doesn’t discuss its plans.
It’ll be interesting to see when and if we’ll see any major changes to the way we find apps in the App Store. One easy way currently to find some popular apps is to use the app Kinetik. The App Store is set to cross 25 billion app downloads.
Our sources say that Chomp CEO Ben Keighran and CTO Cathy Edwards are already at work at Apple. Keighran has joined the iTunes Marketing team and Edwards is now a Senior iTunes Engineer.
Just now, Apple confirmed the acquisition of Chomp to AllThingsD, but didn’t say much of course:
Apple on Thursday confirmed it has acquired San Francisco-based start-up Chomp, which operates a search engine for apps, for an undisclosed amount. Apple declined to elaborate on how it plans to integrate Chomp, other than to say Apple sometimes acquires technology companies and generally doesn’t discuss its plans.
It’ll be interesting to see when and if we’ll see any major changes to the way we find apps in the App Store. One easy way currently to find some popular apps is to use the app Kinetik. The App Store is set to cross 25 billion app downloads.
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