Opera Software is buying mobile video optimization and cloud solutions provider <a target="_blank" href="http://www.skyfire.com/">Skyfire Labs</a> for about $155 million in cash and stock, the Oslo-ba
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.skyfire.com">Skyfire</a>, which makes mobile browser products for both carriers and consumers, has raised $10 million in Series D funding.
The company's main car
After raising just shy of $23 million over the past 5 years, Skyfire today announced that they've raised their second biggest round of funding to date. Coming in at $8 million dollars, this Series C r
Until Adobe and Apple work out their differences (Yeah, right) or the entire Internet miraculously switches to using HTML5 for all video content, the Skyfire browser will always have one steadfast sel
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the folks over at SkyFire. They launched their Flash Video-friendly browser for the iPhone back in early November, only to pull it down almost immediately to
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Just a few weeks back, SkyFire (a browser most known for its ability to play Flash videos on handsets that ot
After a slightly rocky (but still crazy fruitful) U.S. launch and a seemingly less painful debut in the U.K., SkyFire for iPhone is continuing its international roll out today. Best known for being th
Just a quick note for all of our friends in the UK: that SkyFire application that was such a big deal just a few weeks back for kinda-sorta allowing Flash video playback on the iPhone? You can get it
Given the underwhelming past few years in Flock‘s history and the seemingly lukewarm post-launch response to RockMelt, I’m not entirely convinced that anyone actually wants a bunch of soci
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Just about every time I write about <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/tag/skyfire/">SkyFire</a>, the cross-platfo
Didn’t get a chance to check out the Flash-friendly-ish SkyFire browser when it went live in the iPhone App Store earlier today? Sorry Charlie, it’s gone — and not because Apple deci
After a two month journey, the SkyFire browser’s seemingly endless voyage onto the App Store has come to a successful end. After word got out yesterday that they’d got the green light from
Good news, everyone! If you’ve been keeping track of SkyFire’s voyage onto the iPhone, you’ll be happy to know: they just got the thumbs up from Apple. For those counting, it took ju
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As soon as we <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/08/25/skyfire-to-submit-their-flash-friendly-browser
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It's been a while since we've heard from Skyfire, the folks behind the Flash-friendly smartphone browse
Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already available on a number of smartph
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SkyFire. Heard of it? It's the smartphone browser that was chewing through Flas
We’ve written about Skyfire before. Plenty of times, actually. It’s the smartphone browser that, by way of data-compression proxies (and tiny wizards), can chew through Flash video and oth
Back in February, Skyfire (makers of the popular, Flash-enabled smartphone browser of the same name) announced that they’d snatched up Kolbysoft, the company behind the well-established Steel br
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By the time I got wind that Skyfire <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/04/02/skyfire-opens-up-alpha-
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