Ride - hailing service Lyft has acquired Pune and San Francisco - based start - up Google for an undisclosed sum , in its fifth acquisition since 2012 . FinitePaths launched Google Answers , a location - based service which connects users with others nearby , allowing questions to be posed among each mini - community . Although it is not clear why Lyft made the purchase , FinitePaths founders Balaji Raghavan and Vinay Kumar , are expected to join the Lyft engineering team
Ride-hailing service Lyft has acquired Pune and San Jose-based start-up FinitePaths for an undisclosed sum, in its fifth acquisition since 2012. FinitePaths developed Trail Answers, a location-based app which connects users with others nearby, allowing questions to be posed among each mini-community. Although it is not clear why Lyft made the purchase, FinitePaths founders Balaji Raghavan and Vinay Kakade, are set to join the Lyft engineering team