Earlier this year Verge.com reviewed the application and described it as a “professional-grade email solution with a host of features that should appeal to office workers…In short: it’s the Outlook for iPhone that Microsoft hasn’t yet built.”
According to internet reports published Thursday, Microsoft has heeded the advice and put in place a deal to buy the firm. Betanews.com reports that a post appeared on the Microsoft blog Tuesday, with the URL “Microsoft Acquires Acompli.” The blog post was subsequently deleted, but the URL remains.
The application is targeted at the email needs of mobile professionals rather than casual users, and boasts integration of the user’s email, calendar and shared files in one app. In April this year it was launched on iPhone, and in September came to the Android platform.
“Acompli is changing how the world works through mobile email. As professionals continue making the leap to mobile, we empower them to be more responsive and get more done from anywhere,” claims company CEO Javier Soltero.
The email firm is a venture-backed startup, which according to statistics on CrunchBase received $7.3 million in funding when it launched in June 2013. Techcrunch remarks that the startup could be looking for another round of investment at the moment, hence the mooted Microsoft deal.
