In a move set to strategically position themselves this holiday season, Google announced they’ve acquired BufferBox, a startup that rents temporary shipping addresses for customers to make parcel ...

Google has purchased BufferBox, a Canadian startup based in Waterloo that has been in business for about two years. According to sources, Google paid over $17 million for the locker storage provider, ...

The rise in online shopping influenced Google to acquire the Waterloo, Ontario startup BufferBox, which provides a network of physical, not virtual, parcel pickup stations for package deliveries.

Niether BufferBox nor Google revealed much about what the acquisition will lead to, but an engineering director at Google said BufferBox’s ten person team, branding, and services would continue to ...

At the time of the acquisition, Google engineer Steve Woods said “we think there’s a real exciting space beyond this amazing start with boxes” — making it clear that the company was thinking beyond ...

Google today announced their acquisition of YC alumni BufferBox, a Waterloo-based startup that specializes in providing users with temporary lockers to receive delivery of packages from online ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is really quite tall. Google said today that it has acquired BufferBox, ...