RIM Buys Mobile Developer Start-Up

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­Research in Motion has brought tinyHippos - a developer of mobile apps emulators - for an undisclosed amount. tinyHippos are the makers of a mobile environment emulator called Ripple and have experience in web and mobile widget/web development.

The company said that following the acquisition it would be working to bring BlackBerry support to the Ripple product.

In a short statement, Tyler Lessard, VP Global Alliances & Developer Relation at RIM commented "We have been integrating support for web technologies like HTML5 and BlackBerry WebWorks into our developer platform, and working to continually deliver enhanced tools and frameworks to our developer community. We look forward to working with the team at tinyHippos to further provide a simplified and streamlined experience to our developers."

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