The makers of the best post-processing app available on iPhone, Snapseed, have been bought by Google. You can read the official statement here. I’ve reproduced it in its entirety for your convenience:

Google Acquires Nik Software
We are pleased to announce that Google has acquired Nik Software. For nearly 17 years, we’ve been guided by our motto, “photography first”, as we worked to build world class digital image editing tools. We’ve always aspired to share our passion for photography with everyone, and with Google’s support we hope to be able to help many millions more people create awesome pictures.

We’re incredibly grateful for all of your support and hope you’ll join us on the next phase of our journey as part of Google.

All our best!

The Nik Software Team

The Nik Software folks make a tremendous desktop suite for photographer’s as well as the fantastic Snapseed app. I’m really curious to see the long term impact Google will have on these great photography tools. Google really cares about photography as witnessed by the Google+ social network. Overall, I think this is exciting news for photographers in general. I’m quiet interested in seeing what will become of Snapseed the one app that is in every workflow of my mobile photos.