Apple acquires Swedish software start-up

Three years after buying computer vision-company Polar Rose, Apple has acquired another start-up from southern Sweden. Rapidus can today reveal that the technology giant has bought AlgoTrim, a software developer specialized in compression algorithms for mobile phones.AlgoTrim has developed algorithms for lossless compression of processing instructions in operating systems and applications. Apart from speeding up processing, the compression reduces the use of flash memory in for exampel RISC-proc…