Apple Acquires Swedish Mobile Data Compression Firm AlgoTrim

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish company that builds compression algorithms for mobile phones. The acquisition was first reported by Rapidus and then confirmed by TechCrunch.

AlgoTrim announced in March that it would be powering a Photo Album app for Japanese carrier KDDI. The company developed a JPEG processor that made processing up to six times faster than the standard LibJPEG technology. AlgoTrim also has a Code Compression Library that is designed to reduce the size of mobile device firmware. It is estimated that more than 100M mobile phone devices have been launched with AlgoTrim's code compression technology by several of the top-tier mobile phone manufacturers around the globe.
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