Skyfire acquires kolbysoft, developer of Android Steel Browser

Skyfire announces the acquisition of kolbysoft, creators of the Steel mobile browser for Android. The acquisition is effective immediately. Financial details of the deal are not being disclosed.

“By adding kolbysoft’s talent to Skyfire, we’ll be able to fuse the best of Skyfire’s famed cloud-computing multimedia capabilities with the Webkit browser movement to create a better hybrid model for Android,” explained Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire. “Steel has been the most acclaimed browser in the Android Marketplace, adding features atop Webkit. Together, we’ll be able to do so much more.”

The acquisition brings considerable Android and user experience know-how to Skyfire. Michael Kolb, founder of kolbysoft, will become chief client architect for all of Skyfire’s browsers across operating systems. All of us at Skyfire are thrilled to work with Michael, and welcome him aboard.

Users of the existing version of the Steel browser will still be able to use the current version, but will be offered upgrades to Skyfire Android edition once it is released.