AOL remaking itself?

Last week, I think, I posted about AOL's purchase of storage company, XDrive. Today there's a story out of Seattle about AOL's acquisition of local company Wildseed (where there are lots of former Microsofties: AOL buys mobile software company Wildseed. What's going on over there?

America Online Inc. has acquired Kirkland mobile software company Wildseed and set up a wireless division in Seattle as part of a larger effort to enhance the way people access music, games, calendars and other content on their cell phones.

With the addition of Wildseed's 34 employees, the AOL Wireless division will now employ about 165 people in Seattle. The newly created division, which includes AOL Mobile, Tegic and Wildseed, is led by former Microsoft and Action Engine executive Craig Eisler. [ed. another!]

"Wireless is a big bet for us," said Eisler, who joined AOL last summer and was recently appointed general manager of the new division.

Posted by Grayson at August 10, 2005 07:42 AM