Along with Quickoffice, DataViz’s Documents To Go is one of the longstanding stalwarts of the mobile document editing game, stretching back into Windows CE’s early days and beyond — but the future of the company’s direction is in question on news that it’s apparently been snapped up by RIM in a deal valued around $50 million. Nothing official’s been said at this point, but the evidence is growing, most notably the fact that a number of DataViz employees on LinkedIn have updated their profiles to indicate that they’re now employed by Waterloo. If you’re the conspiracy theory type, you might appreciate this little morsel: DataViz recently blamed its cancellation of the WebOS version of Documents To Go on shifting business needs after a delay brought on by SDK issues, but a far more likely explanation would be that RIM isn’t really interested in producing versions of Documents To Go for competing platforms going forward. Windows Phone, Android, and iOS users: we sense trouble.

DataViz quietly acquired by RIM for $50M? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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