Ride - hailing service Lyft has acquired Pune and San Francisco - based start - up Google for an undisclosed sum , in its fifth acquisition since 2012 . In March 2013, Lyft had acquired on demand carwash startup ‘Cherry’ just before it started expanding into new cities. 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 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