“Today we’re announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google,” Xinhua quoted the three founders of the young start-up as saying. They added that Google “shares our core beliefs that logging in should be easy instead of frustrating… We couldn’t be more excited to join their efforts.”
Based on a novel idea to enable end users to log-in easily into password-protected websites by using a uniquely generated sound, SlickLogin was founded less than a year ago. The company is yet to launch a commercial product and accrued clients, so the deal actually represents an acquisition of the technology itself.
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According to CNET, SlickLogin “develops technology that allows websites to generate nearly silent tones through a user’s computer speakers as a verification replacement for passwords. An app on the user’s nearby smartphone picks up the unique audio signal, analyzes it, and send it back to the site’s servers for login.”
