HootSuite Acquires Android Developer Swift App to Speed Development for Google’s Open Mobile Platform

(Business Wire) 12 March 2010

HootSuite Media, Inc. purchased Swift Access, Inc. is a company specialized in Androidâ? ¢ App development, especially its flagship product “Swift App”, a Twitter client for Android. The acquisition means faster development for the growing market for Android, is a sign of support for the emerging mobile platform. Terms of the transaction were not.

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HootSuite for Android application allows multiple Twitter update profiles, run in real time to search, track and analyze keyword click-through statistics for messages directly from the phone. Future plans for the Android App include Facebook integration and benefit other tools marketers, consultants, collaborative teams from companies, governments.

Android open source mobile platform is now available on phones from different manufacturers, members of the Open Handset Alliance, which produces mobile phones have made as their nexus the Motorola or Google Droid One of HTC. The software is open source under an Apache license means that vendors can add proprietary extensions without any communication of that back to the open source community.

HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes is enthusiastic about the growth potential for Android on the market, “Android development is an essential part of our business strategy and we are catalyzed excited about the revolution in the mobile industry by the Open Handset Alliance. With tens of thousands of Shipping daily phone numbers of dozens of manufacturers, we see no end in sight for this open standard. “

The acquisition will

Swift App developer Sebastian Delmont HootSuite accession as a mobile consultant. Delmont said: “I am glad to see come HootSuite to Android, pooling their amazing social media platform in the fastest Android Twitter client Twitter to one of the best mobile experience to produce.”

HootSuite a version of the 2nd on social media dashboard for Android March 2010 on the basis of the formation of Swift App developed. The app is available in Lite (free) or Full (paid) versions of the Android Market, and received positive reports from many notable tech news sources including Mashable, TechCrunch, GigaOm, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble and ReadWriteWeb, along with dozens more news outlets. Release News Roundup: http://blog.hootsuite.com/android-iphone-news-roundup/

addition to the Android App HootSuite offers a popular social media dashboard web application, two versions of iPhone Apps ® and three varieties of desktop applications.

Resources

Blog Post: http://blog.hootsuite.com/hootsuite-acquires-swift-app/

HootSuite for Android: http://hootsuite.com/android

Media Kit http://blog.hootsuite.com/media/

More on Android

Android Market: http://www.android.com/market/

Open Handset Alliance: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

Android (OS): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_ (operating_system)

Android (list of devices): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices

Swift App: http://www.swift-app.com/

About

HootSuite Media, Inc.

HootSuite helps companies use the Social Web for marketing campaigns start to identify and grow audience and distribute targeted messages through various channels. With HootSuiteâ? Unique Social Media Dashboard, teams can jointly plan updates to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress and other social networks through Web, desktop or mobile platforms plus track campaign results and trends in the industry to quickly adapt tactics.

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