Google buys photo editor Snapseed - churchaceeakell

The contention 'tween Google and Facebook is stepping up a notch after Google connected Monday noninheritable Nik Package, the European nation company behind Snapseed, a touristy iOS photo app. Snapseed is a photo manipulation app that also uses filters in a similar way to Facebook-owned Instagram does. Snapseed was previously Apple's pick for the iPad App of the Year.

Atomic number 3 start of the same announcement, Vic Gundotra, Google's senior frailty president of engine room, declared that Google+ reached 400 million signups, 100 million of which are monthly active users. Facebook still leads as the biggest social network with to a higher degree 950 million monthly active users.

In many ways, Snapseed is really similar to Instagram, which Facebook bought earlier this year for 1 billion. You can apply filters for photos, as well as frames and effects so much arsenic disputation shift, but the app lacks its own friendly network compared to Instagram. Snapseed besides only has 9 billion users patc Instagram announced in July it has 100 million users. Instagram is on the loose to download and Snapseed costs $4.99.

Yet though Snapseed is not as popular equally Instagram, the app has its own following among photo enthusiasts and is a slap-up match for Google+, which has an emphasis on photo sharing. If Google's joint announcement on the Nik Software skill and Google+ stats was not enough of a hint that Snapseed will be somehow integrated into Google+, The Verge reports that the portion of the company that worked on Snapseed testament work directly on the social network.

It's unclear though what kind of integration we will get a line from Snapseed and Google+. For example, although Facebook bought Instagram, the elite group network released a separate Facebook Camera app for iOS, complete with Instagram-like filters then far unbroken Instagram independent. Google also has the opportunity to integrate Snapseed filters, frames, and redaction capabilities directly into its Google+ rangy app for iOS, while Snapseed also has an Android version in the plant.

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