RIM Acquires Social Gaming Outfit Scoreloop

By
Beecher Tuttle ,
TMCnet Contributor
In a clear sign that it is taking the mobile gaming and social media crazes seriously, Research in Motion (News - Alert) on Tuesday acquired Germany-based Scoreloop, maker of a cross-platform toolkit that developers use to incorporate social functionality into mobile games.
The Blackberry maker will work with the Scoreloop team to "provide tools that will further enable [its] developer community to take gaming to a new level of social integration on the BlackBerry platform," Tyler Lessard (News
- Alert), RIM’s vice president of global alliances and developer relations, noted in a blog post... Read More