Web-hosting and domain registration giant GoDaddy has purchased smart calendar app Canary, it was revealed via a post on on Canary’s website on Thursday.

No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but Canary did reveal that the purchase was an acqui-hire. Not only will the Canary team be coming to work at GoDaddy, but the Canary app will actually to continue to work for existing users, just without any further updates.

“Thanks to our latest update, Canary will continue to work as a standalone app on your iPhone, and you should have no problems with it unless there is a major change to one of the underlying services,” the company wrote. “We will make sure that Canary remains available on the App Store until we’re confident all of our existing users have had a chance to upgrade.”

Canary is a calendar app for the iPhone that allows Google Calendar users to schedule meetings. Users can create events that integrate with their phone contacts to easily send invitations, as well as integrate with Foursquare to find the location of the event as well.

The app also features a home screen called Nest View that gives users a visual countdown of their next event and sends a pre-composed message to update the other attendees if the event if changed.

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