Google buys Cronologics to boost Android Wear efforts

Google’s latest acquisition looks to improve Android Wear’s chances of a more sustainable future—or at least that is the hope. The tech giant bought Cronologics, the company behind CoWatch’s software, which is an Android-based smartwatch operating system that also brings Amazon Alexa to smartwatches. The team will be joining Google and working on Android Wear and they plan to “help grow the portfolio of watches powered by Android Wear” and will be “pushing the frontier of wearable technology and smartwatches with Android Wear 2.0 and beyond.” Interestingly, a number of Cronologics employees are also ex-Googlers, making this a homecoming of sorts for them.

Source: TechCrunch