  Google acquires Divide, a four year old, New York based company that makes a popular app that lets you securely access corporate documents and email from your phone, It also manage the personal smartphones that consumers increasingly use on the job. In a post on Divide's website on Monday, the company said it was joining Google's Android team. The post did not provide financial terms of the deal and a Google spokesman declined to comment on the terms.
Divide was founded by former Morgan Stanley IT professionals who led the bank’s mobile app development.
Divide was a really popular secure container app, downloaded over 200,000 times as of last October, TechCrunch reported. And users rated it with a four stars out of five on the Google Play app store.
Divide's mobile app separates a consumer's personal data and the corporate data contained on a phone, making it easier for businesses to manage disparate personal devices that consumers increasingly use on the job.
The acquisition helps Google, as it would make Android an even stronger choice for enterprises. |