HTC buys Zoodles for 13 million dollars
October 18th, 2011 — sateeshHTC Corp plans to buy Inquisitive Minds, a US maker of children’s software, for $13 million to expand its offering of applications. Inquisitive Minds, based in California, owns game app Zoodles, which is designed for children aged eight and younger. Zoodles is a kid educational software where child can play, safely browse web, watch videos and several other features where parents can monitor the child usage of data. HTC has been aggressively expanding its mobile software platform through acquisitions (Inquisitive minds and Beats Electronics) in order to compete with rivals such as Apple Inc and Samsung.
