Apple Acquires Hyderabad-based Startup, Tuplejump

Apple Acquires Hyderabad-based Startup

Silicon valley tech giant Apple has acquired Tuplejump, a Hyderabad based machine learning startup that work under companies store , process and visualize big data with its technology.
Apple Acquires Hyderabad-based StartupTuplejump’s Founded in 2013, two co-founders Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu have already joined Apple while third co-founder and third one Deepak Alur, joined Anaplan , a Cloud-based business modeling and planning platform for sales, operations and finance.

According to a Tech Crunch report, Apple is on a machine learning company buying spree and recently bought two well-known startups Perceptio and Turi.

“Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” a company spokesperson told Tech Crunch.

Apple was individually interested in “FiloDB” — an open source project that Tuplejump was creating to efficiently apply machine learning concepts and analytics to complex data.

The Tuplejump team was well established with open source big data tools such as the Apache Spark processing engine, the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, and the Apache Kafka distributed high-throughput publish-subscribe messaging system, Venturebeat reported.
“Tuplejump also built an open source search indexing system called Stargate that works with data stored in Cassandra and relies on the fundamentals of the Apache Lucene full-text search software,” the report added.

Tuplejump’s website has been shut down following the acquisition, the details of which are yet to be disclosed.

In May, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company’s first development centre in Hyderabad to work on Apple Maps during his visit to the country.

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