Google acquires Israeli security start-up SlickLogin

An illustration picture shows a Google logo with two one Euro coins, taken in Munich in this Jan 15, 2013 file photograph. [Photo/Agencies]

JERUSALEM - The global internet giant Google is acquiring SlickLogin, an Israeli developer of sound-based password alternative, in an "acqui-hiring deal," which means SlickLogin's staff and knowledge will be integrated into Google, SlickLogin confirmed the deal on its website on Sunday.

"Today we're announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google," the three founders of the young start-up said, adding Google "shares our core beliefs that logging in should be easy instead of frustrating... We couldn't be more excited to join their efforts."

No financial figures of the transaction were disclosed.

SlickLogin was founded less than a year ago. The company is based on a novel idea to enable end users to log-in easily into password-protected websites by using a uniquely generated sound.

The company has yet to launch a commercial product and accrued clients, so the deal actually represents an acquisition of the technology itself.

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