Microsoft Acquires Groove Music App for iOS From Zikera

Microsoft has procured the Groove music application for iOS from Canadian startup Zikera. The Groove application makers affirmed the securing expressing that, "We are excited to declare that Groove has been procured by Microsoft!"

Zikera in its Medium post on Wednesday included that the Groove application is no more accessible to download yet the individuals who have as of now downloaded the application could keep on utilizing it. The application will not get any redesigns also.

On behalf of the founders and the entire team, we have a special message to the millions of music lovers that have supported us:
THANK YOU.
Our journey started back in the days of the iPod. While it was a thing of beauty, we still struggled to choose what to play from our beloved music collection. From that instant, we envisioned a music player so intelligent that learns our tastes and habits in order to play the right music at the right time. Then Groove was born, and you made it a success. We are incredibly proud to have delighted you with a rich mobile experience and countless hours of music bliss through the tens of millions of personalized playlists we generated.

The startup in an email to WinBeta included, "Toward the end, joining Microsoft wasn't a piece of the arrangement. They obtained the innovation and brand (counting the Groove application's space)."

Microsoft representative in a messaged explanation to Venture Beat additionally affirmed the obtaining, yet did not expound, "Microsoft procured Zikera's Groove music application. We don't have anything more to share." Neither of the two organizations shared money related subtle elements of the securing bargain or when was it made.

Groove, the iOS music player, had some expertise in canny music disclosure. In spite of the fact that Microsoft is yet to affirm how it will be utilizing the innovation, it is likely that the tech would will be utilized as a part of the Redmond-based organization's own Groove Music administration, in the past known as Xbox Music administration.

Microsoft is not new to iOS application acquisitions. The organization almost a year back gained the Sunrise date-book application and in October added the application's elements into its Microsoft Outlook application.

The Groove procurement news by Microsoft comes a week after the Redmond-based tech mammoth obtained SwiftKey, a famous console application. As a feature of the understanding, SwiftKey workers will join the Microsoft group.