Friday, April 23, 2010

Cloudhopper Acquired By Twitter

Seattle-based Cloudhopper, a firm developing messaging infrastructure to connect Twitter to mobile carrier networks, has been acquired, Twitter announced Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cloudhopper's founders, Joe Lauer and Kristen Kanaar, are joining Twitter as part of the buy. Twitter said it has been working with Cloudhopper for the last eight months on its SMS software. Lauer is the former founder and VP of Simplewire, Inc., which was acquired by Qpass in 2006.