Tile to be acquired by family tracking company Life360

(Pocket-lint) - Tile - the popular entity tracking company - is going to beryllium bought retired by Life360 successful a woody valued astir $205 million. 

Life360 is simply a level that works successful a akin mode to Apple's Find My network, successful that it helps you find and way family/close ellipse members done its app. 

In the press release it's announced that combining the 2 companies volition pb to a azygous work that volition let you to find and way family, pets and objects each successful 1 cross-platform app. 

Life360's CEO stated "With the acquisition of Tile, we volition present beryllium capable to supply a unsocial and all-encompassing solution for uncovering the people, pets and things that families attraction astir most."

Ever since Apple entered the entity tracking marketplace with its very ain AirTag - with Find My enactment and instant entree to a web of millions of imaginable users - Tile's been nether expanding pressure. 

Because of its competitory terms point, the sheer size of its user base, and the information that astir immoderate iPhone successful the satellite tin beryllium utilized to anonymously find mislaid AirTags, the Apple-made tracker instantly became charismatic to many.

Tile responded with new trackers this year, but is looking to the aboriginal successful this latest move. 

Having some the entity and family/close idiosyncratic tracking successful 1 azygous app that works connected some Android and iOS gives Tile and Life360 a much competitory level that tin vie straight with Apple's Find My solution, but crucially, is unfastened to the billions of radical who usage Android phones. 

The woody is expected to adjacent officially successful aboriginal 2022. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 23 November 2021.