socialmedian: Funambol acquires Zapatec for an age of “sync and push” mobile apps

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Funambol acquires Zapatec for an age of “sync and push” mobile apps

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 04, 2009

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In hopes of creating a new kind of mobile business, Funambol is announcing today that it has acquired Zapatec, a maker of web-based application technology. The combined companies hope to launch what they call a new generation of “sync and push” apps for mobile devices.

Redwood City, Calif.-based Funambol is a player in open source software which synchronizes email messages between computers and mobile devices. Zapatec has created an AJAX Web 2.0 framework that lets you

The hope is to make life easier on developers who face a fragmented market of too many mobile devices — each of them requiring separate software engineering in order to run a new app. The companies will combine Funambol’s open source mobile sync and push server with Zapatec’s technology for building rich mobile apps. With these tools, developers can build software that should be able to run on multiple mobile platforms. These apps will have modern features such as automatic sync and push notifications (or updates that tell you about something new).