Google Buys Games and Widget Maker LabPixies
Google has revealed part of its plan to compete with Facebook and the iPhone’s gaming offerings by announcing its acquisition of LabPixies, an Israeli company that makes widgets and games.
Some of LabPixies’ better-known productions include Flood-It, a popular iPhone strategy game based on colored blocks, and Trio, which is reminiscent of Tetris. But LabPixies is also fairly unique for replicating its games on iGoogle, the search company’s widget-based personal homepage.
LabPixies has been also been particularly good at covering a wide variety of platforms; Flood-It, for example, is available on eight, from Facebook to My Yahoo.
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