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By Natalie Novitski

15598877_s כקשאורקMeet Google’s latest net-security acquisition: The Israeli start-up SlickLogin. The company developed a technology that facilitates a simpler entry process into secure sites: Instead of typing a password you just have to bring your smartphone or tablet close to a security display. The company, only two months old, was acquired by Google after presenting its product at Techchrunch Disrupt, last September in San Francisco. Are we heading into a future with no passwords? It probably won’t be anytime soon. Google is most likely interested in the developers’ knowledge and experience, rather than their product.

IHLS – Israel Homeland Security

Industry sources estimate that the SlickLogin purchase is actually an act of hiring, rather than one of acquiring new tech. The developers are expected to join an existing research team in Google’s Israeli R&D center. The practice, known as “acqui-hiring”, is commonly used by Google and other large companies, whose aim is to recruit new talented employees by acquiring their start-ups relatively cheaply.