Mobile start-up Bump just announced that it has been acquired by Google in a blog post on Monday.

The company was founded in 2008, making a name for itself on the hot technology of bumping phones together to share contact data. The app has been downloaded over 100 million times, and continues to get updates. The same team released a fairly popular photo-sharing app called Flock last year, as well.

The acquisition was reported on AllThingsD as netting the company somewhere between $30 and $60 million.

Ever since Ice Cream Sandwich was released, beautifully designed apps started making their on the Play Store. Now, it has become a norm, rather than an exception to find beautifully designed apps and widgets on the Play Store. However, even with so many agenda widgets available on the Play Store, I have never been able to find one that looked as good as the stock HTC Sense calendar widget.

Google is pushing out a new update for its Maps application, which received a rather hefty upgrade not too long ago. This new update makes accessing the navigation screen considerably quicker and easier, with the introduction of a Google Now route and traffic overview card. In addition, the development team at Mountain View HQ has implemented a brand new ‘Tips and Tricks’ section of the app which is accessible via the hamburger menu, mounted on the left-hand side of the screen.

Google has started rolling out an over-the-air update for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition. This upgrade brings the handset up to speed with current Google Play Edition HTC One and Nexus devices running build JWR66Y. Although it does not bring any major software improvements, it’s still quite an important stability update that we would advise all users to download.

Starting today, Google is rolling out an over-the-air update for the Google Play Edition of HTC’s flagship One. This upgrade brings the handset up to speed with current Nexus devices running build JWR66Y. Although it doesn’t bring any major software improvements, it’s still quite an important stability update that we would advise all users to download.