{"id":5393,"date":"2010-05-03T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:31:31","slug":"google-buys-3-d-software-maker-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/03\/google-buys-3-d-software-maker-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys 3-D software maker Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5397\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Bump-Technologies-logo2-150x80.gif\" alt=\"Bump Technologies logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"80\" \/>Continuing its furious buying spree, <a href=\"google.com\">Google<\/a> has <a title=\"acquired\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Search-Engines\/Google-Bags-BumTop-Adding-3D-UI-for-Android-Tablets-529010\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired<\/a> Bump<a href=\"http:\/\/bumptop.com\/\"> Technologies,<\/a> maker of software that makes computer desktops appear to be\u00a03-D.\u00a0 This latest acquisition by the world&#8217;s most popular search engine, says <a href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\">School of Management<\/a> Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, just intensifies the competitive battle between Google and<a href=\"apple.com\"> Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLooks like Google and Apple may be defining the battle for user interface when, just a few years back, we would have expected Microsoft to do so.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its furious buying spree, Google has acquired Bump Technologies, maker of software that makes computer desktops appear to be\u00a03-D.\u00a0 This latest acquisition by the world&#8217;s most popular search engine, says School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, just intensifies the competitive battle between Google and Apple. \u201cLooks like Google and Apple may be defining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2762,1119,2761,418,2847,1530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/7762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}