Search giant, Google, Thursday announced that it has acquired a mobile messaging startup Jibe Mobile to help bring Rich Communications Services (RCS) to its Android products. Google's blogpost read "As part of this commitment, we’re also very excited to announce that the Jibe Mobile team is joining Google to help us bring RCS to a global audience. Jibe is a leading provider of RCS services and they’ll continue helping carriers easily deploy RCS to their users."
Letter from @JibeMobile CEO on Jibe joining @Google http://t.co/PLKLemAK3j
— jibemobile (@jibemobile) September 30, 2015
The RCS is a GSM Association (GSMA) backed starndard that leverages an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network to offer communication beyond traditional SMS and MMS. In addition to messaging, it brings whole new lot of features, including location sharing, screen sharing between devices, and also contact presence sharing. Jibe Mobile customers include U.S.-based Sprint and leading European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, KPN, and SFR.
