Twitter has acquired the team from the mobile application development start-up Cabana. They make this hiring to put more talent on their platform team. Cabana has announced this in their blog and twitter has confirmed it. But the main reasons behind this agreement are still unknown.
Reeve Thompson and Jeremy Gordon are the founders of this cabana. The team comes from the Sega, Pixar, Adobe, EA and LucasArt which are the high profile companies. This company has the investers included Digg founder Kevin Rose, former Google employee and Twitter investor Chris Sacca, and Path CEO Dave Morin.
Cabana says in their site “Cabana team draws from a past of deep technical wizardry and merges it with a innovative and effective design. Accustomed to GPUs, animatics, and pixel shaders, we take a different approach to developing for the web; one that we believe gives us a unique perspective on mobile app development.”
As per the cabana blog, the team responding about joining with the twitter
“We built Cabana because we are passionate about empowering people to develop interactive content in new and innovative ways. That same passion for innovation and the democratization of content creation is also shared by the amazing team at Twitter.
Over the past few months, we’ve gotten to know the Twitter team and discovered the tremendous amount of technological synergy and alignment of our visions. The more we explored this synergy, the more excited we became about joining forces and working together.
Starting today we will be joining Twitter’s platform team, and will build tools to help third-party developers create new experiences on Twitter and empower the larger Twitter ecosystem.”
Also cabana tells in their blog that, they are no longer available for cabana standalone mobile app development environment, it will be shouting down on December 1, 2012.