(PressMediaWire) REDMOND, Wash. — April 15, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. has
completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today.
Danger’s expertise in building great, intuitive client software for
mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services fosters
rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing,
entertainment and personalization. The combined force of Danger and
Microsoft strengthens the company’s ability to provide innovative
mobile experiences to more consumers.
Danger will become a part
of the new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the
Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices
Division at Microsoft. The PMX team focuses on consumer-facing mobile
projects and is led by Roz Ho, corporate vice president of Premium
Mobile Experiences, reporting to Andy Lees, senior vice president of
the MCB. Danger co-founders Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt will join the
new organization, reporting directly to Ho.
“We imagine a mobile
experience that embraces sharing and celebrating relationships and
personal moments,” Ho said. “Combining Danger and Microsoft talents
together in the Premium Mobile Experiences team is how we’re going to
deliver cool, new, fun mobile experiences to consumers. We want people
to smile every time they look at their phone.”
The Danger mobile
Internet platform, which connects people to their social circles and
other rich content, is an integrated end-to-end solution that enables
people to interact with their friends, social communities and content
through the Internet and Internet services.
“At Danger, we created a fun and easy-to-use mobile experience for today’s Internet-savvy consumer,” Britt said.
Hershenson
added, “As we combine our team and technologies with Microsoft, we see
a clear path to evolving that experience and delivering it to an even
broader group of consumers.”
Danger employees will continue to work from their current offices. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
Founded
in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software,
services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their
full potential.
SOURCE: Microsoft
