Thursday, September 9, 2010

RIM Confirms Acquisition of DataViz

RIM announced that they picked up DataViz, maker of the long running Documents To Go application.  The deal hands RIM all the assets and most of the employees.  DataViz has been in the smartphones market for some time now, making conversion software to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files on many smartphone platforms.

Not sure on the exact value of the deal, but it's a buy that's hard to pass up.  DataViz already announced previously that there won't be a port of the app for Palm's WebOS due to lack of support from Palm and HP.  I hope support on Android keeps going.

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