Technology giant Apple has made its first ever startup acquisition in India, by acquiring Hyderabad-based machine learning startup Tuplejump for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2013 by Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu, Tuplejump operates in India as well as the United States. As per CrunchBase, Apple has made 82 acquisitions since it was founded in 1976.

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Apple is boosting its machine learning capabilities with the acquisition of Tuplejump. The India/US-based start-up has typically operated with open source projects such as Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra, and the Apache Kafka distributed high-throughput publish-subscribe messaging system, but it is the FiloDB project which is said to be what interested Apple the most. The company describes itself as having the goal of simplifying data management technologies in order to make them simple to use. Apple has not confirmed the acquisition but told TechCrunch: "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans." The FiloDB open source project is designed to build and apply machine learning concepts and analytics to large amounts of complex streaming data.

US-based tech giant Apple has now acquired Tuplejump, a Hyderabad-based machine-learning startup that had been helping companies stock, process and visualizes big data with its unique software. With the India/US based company, Apple has now acquired three machine-learning companies within a short window of two years so as to expand its reach into artificial intelligence technology. According to a report on Techcrunch, the Shares of Apple (AAPL) had been continuously increasing in the afternoon trading on Thursday following the companies agreement to purchase Tuplejump, citing sources. Two co-founders of the Machine Learning startup (founded in 2013), Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu are already reported to have joined Apple while the third co-founder, Deepak Alur has joined Anaplan that is a Cloud-based business planning platform for finance, operations, and sales. Apple had been particularly interested in an open source project titled "FiloDB" that Tuplejump was currently working on so as to efficiently apply the machine learning concepts along with analytics to complex data.

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