Qualcomm Innovation Center has acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc., looking to up its integrated services options towards optimizing network usage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
We’ve got some serious subsidiary action going on here, as the Qualcomm Innovation center is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and iSkoot Technologies is a newly-formed corporation that has taken in all of iSkoot Inc.’s assets. Based in San Francisco, CA, iSkoot is a tool for mobile content delivery that’s designed to reduce data bandwidth and saves battery life.
With the acquisition, iSkoot will become a subsidiary of QuIC, Qualcomm’s own sector that’s dedicated to enabling and optimizing open-source software with Qualcomm products. Qualcomm has a few goals for iSkoot already, which include integrating it with existing company technologies and developing more open-source data management contributions for the mobile industry.
These efforts will be centered around iSkoot’s Kalaida Platform, which is intended to handle data-intensive tasks through iSkoot-managed proxy servers. Here the data is transcoded , and traffic aggregated, reducing data transmission. It’s an important step towards systematic consideration of mobile trends, which are headed towards browsing at break-neck speeds.
“iSkoot and their products match our strategy to optimize the delivery of any service over a wireless network and deliver true business value to our partners and customers,” said Rob Chandhok, president of QuIC. “QuIC’s acquisition of iSkoot provides us with a push data services platform, a social network aggregation solution and voice 2.0 services that dramatically strengthens our ability to continue providing the most effective mobile solutions for operators and device makers as they serve consumers worldwide.”
This is yet another way in which cloud-related services are being readily applied to the mobile space. For Qualcomm, the process is being optimized on a network level. The new extension from iSkoot will certainly aid efforts in that arena. Several corporations are seeing how mobile trends are related to the cloud–it’s a necessary aspect of the industry’s growth, and will affect a number of markets moving forward.
Qualcomm seems to be streamlining some of its efforts here; the company recently shut down FLO TV, and took to the developer community with an augmented reality app challenge. In other Qualcomm news, its Flarion division lost its president, Raymond P. Dolan, to Sonus Networks Inc.
