Google continue to expand their portfolio of companies with their latest acquisition of Canadian firm Pushlife.

It is reported that Google bought the company for $25 million and the buy signals further commitment by Google to improve its offerings for music technology and apps for Android phones.

Pushlife was started up by Ray Reddy, a former Research in Motion corporate executive who left Blackberry to start up his own company specialising in creating means for music livers to be able to transfer their iTunes library onto non Apple smartphones.

A statement from Pushlife said: “We will be joining Google's engineering team in Canada, and will be working on building better mobile applications for all users. The past three years have been an incredible ride and, while we will be eventually discontinuing the Pushlife service, we look forward to more adventures at Google.”

Google have also confirmed the buy out of the company: “We are excited to welcome the Pushlife team to Google,” said a spokesman for the company.

“We believe the team has a wealth of experience building cool mobile applications, and we think they'll make a great addition to our mobile team.”

Pushlife are currently responsible for powering the Virgin Mobile Live Blackberry app in both the UK and in Canada, however it is not known if Google will be continuing with this contract in the future.