Google has acquired Canadian startup Bufferbox for an undisclosed sum.
The self-serve parcel pick-up station outfit, which started life at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, announced it had been scooped up by the advertising giant on Friday.
As online shopping becomes a bigger part of how you buy products, we look forward to playing a part in bringing that experience to the next level. We are happy to share that it will be business as usual for our users and we are looking forward to continuing to build out the service,
Bufferbox said in a blog post on its website.
It claims to make rage-inspiring missed deliveries a thing of the past
— via redwolf.newsvine.com