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IMImobile acquires award-winning digital agency Skinkers

September 26th, 2011 | General News, Releases | Tim Heyes

IMImobile to drive innovation in multi-device applications across web, mobile & social channels.

IMImobile, a leading provider of technology infrastructure for mobile data, voice and video services to mobile operators, enterprises and media companies today announced the acquisition of UK-based digital agency Skinkers.

Skinkers pioneered the use of desktop applications since early 2000 and more recently has developed innovative iPhone/iPad and Android applications for some of the world’s biggest and best-known organisations and brands. Its client list includes the American Airlines, BBC, Haymarket, Microsoft, NDS, Spectator and Virgin Atlantic.

Vishwanath Alluri, Founder and Chairman of IMImobile commented “With the acquisition of Skinkers we will add considerable strength to our existing offering. Skinkers bring on board an excellent digital understanding of application development, user-interface design as well as great expertise how to best use the latest web and social network technologies.”

For more information and the full press release please click here.

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Version 2 of the NMA app is live!

April 6th, 2011 | iPhone, Releases | andrew.hawkins

The brand new ‘New Media Age’ app for the Apple iPhone is now available for download from the iTunes App Store.

NMA iPhone App

 The app builds on the success of the original NMA app that was launched last year, and includes these great new features: 

- All content is fully available offline, allowing you to read news and opinion even when you don’t have a connection to the Internet.
- Share articles with your friends across key social networks such as email, Facebook and Twitter.
- Read the latest from Gadfly.
- A complete UI re-design.

You can download it from the link below:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/new-media-age/id340427952?mt=8

The app takes full advantage of Skinkers’ products and technologies, including the ‘Application Accelerator’ product and ‘Content Services’ cloud service.

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Skinkers beefs up its mobile capabilities by acquiring leading mobile app specialists Umee

March 17th, 2011 | Releases | Rob Noble

Skinkers moves to strengthen its app building capability by purchasing Umee.

Skinkers Limited, well established Technical Agency and proven supplier of push communications and desktop alerts technology to some of the world’s biggest and best-known organisations and brands such as the BBC, American Airlines, UPS, Aviva, Virgin Atlantic and Microsoft, today announced the acquisition of Sprawl Technologies Limited, owners of Umee. Thus, instantly extending and enhancing Skinkers mobile development division with new capabilities, technology and sought after skills.

Umee (umee.tv) is a leading mobile development specialist who works with publishers and content owners, providing them with highly effective ways of reaching their audiences on mobile devices. Umee have delivered successful apps and sites for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry for clients such as New Media Age, Wallpaper Magazine, Annabel Karmel, the Daily Telegraph, NME Magazine, Brand Republic and Jaguar Cars.

“We are delighted to announce our acquisition of Umee today. They bring valuable mobile skills, experience and technology to the Skinkers team and its clients. Combined with Skinkers’ experience of building complex and highly integrated desktop applications such as BBC iPlayer Desktop, we can now offer our clients engaging and effective solutions across all platforms – web, social networks, desktop and mobile” says David Long, CEO Skinkers

All Umee’s staff will be retained and operations will be moved into Skinkers London HQ this month.

“The match between Umee and Skinkers is excellent; both companies have a history of innovation and technical excellence. Our skills and experience are highly complementary and I look forward to working with the Skinkers guys” commented Andrew Hawkins, CEO Umee.

About Skinkers
Skinkers is a Digital Agency that helps its clients plan, create, and manage innovative technical solutions across a broad range of digital media. With our award-winning, talented and highly experienced team based in central London, they provide an extraordinary understanding of all digital platforms to help bring your online strategy to life.

Skinkers technology is used by many of the world’s leading brands including the BBC, Aviva, Capital One, Zurich Insurance, NHS, Premier League & American Airlines.

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For further information

Rob Noble
rob.noble@skinkers.com
+44 (0)207 036 6580

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New Skinkers web site

December 3rd, 2010 | Company, Releases, Tech | Tim Heyes

Last week we finally managed to release a new version of our web site over at skinkers.com. It seems to be the internal projects that take the longest with client work always taking precedence, but with a final sprint to the line we succeeded in getting it live.

For a while now we’ve had the slightly tired splash page directing visitors to either our enterprise software site, or this blog.

We had to make sure we got the new site right though making sure it clearly illustrated, and demonstrated to some extent, what we do.

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Skinkers Develop Urgent Care Dashboard for NHS

August 6th, 2010 | Air, AS3, Flex, Releases, Tech | Tim Heyes

Skinkers release cross platform dashboard built in Adobe AIR to help patients choose the appropriate care based on real-time and location-based data.

Today Skinkers announce the launch of the UK’s first digital Urgent Care Desktop Dashboard.

Created by virtue of a joint innovation venture between Skinkers, NHS Choices, Directgov and Businesslink, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and NHS Lincolnshire, the tool is aimed at making the choice of which NHS service to use a little easier.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust patients can now download the cross-platform desktop app for free from the UHLT web site (http://www.ulh.nhs.uk/for_patients/urgent_care_tools.asp) and use it to access information about getting the right treatment in the Lincolnshire area.

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Action man re-joins Skinkers as they strengthen Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR Team

August 2nd, 2010 | Company, Releases | Tim Heyes

Skinkers is expanding its team delivering innovative solutions to its customers utilising Adobe AIR, Flash and Flex technology

Adam Maloney, also known as “Action” has joined Skinkers Technology Team. He will be a key player in the team that works on exciting Apps for organisations such as the BBC iPlayer, American Airlines DealFinder, Zurich Insurance, the NHS, the Premier League and Proctor & Gamble.

Adam initially joined Hard Reality, part of Leo Burnett, developing games for Kellogg’s. Moving on to digital agency Holler as Head of Games, he honed his skills making hundreds of games and micro-sites for clients, ranging from Cartoon Network to bands including Muse, Busted, Girls Aloud & Jamiroquai. He initially joined Skinkers and was instrumental in the development of the successful American Airlines application before taking up a position at global digital marketing agency Wunderman as Senior Developer working on Land Rover and high profile Ford Ka projects. He then went on to GMTV Kids as lead architect and developer, producing games and sites, before re-joining Skinkers bringing his experience of working on children’s projects and developing games.

Adam said

“Skinkers has a great ethos and I am looking forward to new technical challenges, working with some great people and a new and exciting future for Skinkers.”

Rob Noble COO Skinkers added:

“We have found a very positive response in the market to our Air and Mobile Apps and we are delighted to welcome Adam to the team that creates these”

Applications developed for the Adobe® AIR® runtime use well established web technologies to build rich internet applications that run outside a browser on multiple operating systems.

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