During this week Apple has confirmed the purchase of Gliimpse, a company specialized in the collection and combination of data about the health. Once compiled and analyzed all the data, these are shown to the user in a way that is understandable and useful to the marked purposes. According to has announced Fast Company, this movement from Apple carries brewing is from principles of year although not has been until now when is just of make official from the company American of the Apple bite.
Attending to what is publishes in this half, apparently them of Cupertino in a connected of press released by the company after being asked by the theme. Specifically the response from Apple on this subject was:
Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and as a general rule they do not usually reveal their purpose or their plans.
Apple makes official the acquisition of Gliimpse.
Entering a little more in detail, we find that Gliimpse is a company founded in 2013 by Anil Sthi, a former systems engineer who worked at Apple in the early 1980s, same that in his time got sell Sequoia Software in 2001 to Citrix Systems in a transaction whose value exceeded $ 180 million.
After this sale, Anil Sethi founded several companies of technology for the health where we find names of great value as Pinch Bio and Slipstream. Later and after to get rid of these founded Gliimpse, a company that has managed to develop an application capable of allowing users to enter their medical information personnel in a virtual space with the possibility to add documents and images to fill in the profile. Once filled this information the user can display this information and share it with who they want.
More information: FastCompany
