Research In Motion acquired Torch Mobile, the company behind the WebKit-based Iris mobile browser, today.
Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry platform.
The purchase suggests that RIM will port Iris over to the BlackBerry OS to strengthen its web browsing capabilities. It’s not clear at this time what this will mean for the Windows Mobile version of Iris but Torch Mobile developers will continue to contribute to the development of WebKit.
Terms of the purchase have yet to be revealed.
Source: The Boy Genius Report