Research In Motion has acquired Viigo, a Toronto-based company that has built a platform that makes it easy for publishers and other content companies to develop applications for the BlackBerry platform.
Viigo posted a short statement on its web site today acknowledging that it is now apart of RIM (NSDQ: RIMM). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mark Ruddock, Viigo’s CEO wrote: “Our team has joined RIM
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Good Useful App and a fine acquisition by RIM. We wish the Viigo Team all the very best.
Deepak Lakshmanan
GetJar Inc.
The headline is misleading. Should be “RIM acquires BlackBerry tools maker Viigo.”
I’ve never developed for its platform, but the Viigo RSS app is a must-have for Blackberry users: slick and carefully designed. It’ll be interesting to see what a closer integration will mean.