The search giant Google has acquired Paris-based Moodstocks to bolster the image recognition features on smartphones.
- Moodstocks is a Parisian startup that develops image recognition tools for smartphones,
- The French startup Moodstocks co-founded by Denis Brule and Cedric Deltheil.
- Moodstock’s API and SDK will be discontinued “soon” according to an announcement on the company’s homepage.
- But Terms of the deal were not disclosed and it is not clear yet how much Google has paid for Moodstocks.
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