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Skinkers Agency Buying Mobile Developer Umee

Mar 21, 2011 10:52 AM

Another acquisition that points to the ongoing covergence and consolidation in the mobile and digital media industries, this time in the UK.

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Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, iPhone, BBC, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Sony, Telegraph, Countries, Europe, UK, skinkers, sprawl technologies, umee

BBC Dumps Microsoft-Backed Skinkers Apps, Switches To Adobe

Robert Andrews

Jul 2, 2008 3:36 AM

The BBC is moving away from desktop apps made by Microsoft-backed Skinkers and instead bringing production in-house, switching to Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash-based cross-platform Flex and AIR frameworks. John O’Donovan, BBC future media and technology’s chief architect for journalism, explained that its desktop alert apps like Mini Motty and news…

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Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Companies, Adobe, BBC, Microsoft, skinkers