Aquafadas SAS acquired by Rakuten via e-reader company Kobo

Oct 10, 2012

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Kobo acquires French digital publishing tool company Aquafadas

Rakuten acquired e-reader manufacturer Kobo

Rakuten acquired 100% of e-reader manufacturer Kobo for US$ 315 million in cash in January 2012.

Kobo announced the acquisition of French digital publishing company Aquafadas on October 10, 2012.

Aquafadas

http://www.aquafadas.com was founded in Montpeller in 2004 by Matthieu Kopp (CTO) and Claudia Zimmer (CEO). Today headquarters are located in the Montpellier International Business Incubator’s (MIBI).

“Aquafadas” is the combination of “Aqua”, the name for Apple OSX’ graphical user interface and “fada”, which is the goddess of inspiration (Muse) in Occitan (the original language used in the Provence).

Tools include:

InDesign Authoring: publishing customer mobile apps for iOS and Android using Adobe InDesign
Cloud Authoring: conversion of print to interactive mobile apps, e-books and web applications
CreativeFlow: creating of digital magazine apps
ConversionFlow: importing print documents to smartphones, tablets and web
Aquafadas Viewer
AppFactory
ComicComposer
Cloud Connect
App Marketing Tools
SDK Packages

Desktop apps include:

MotionComposer
BannerZest
PulpMotion
KidsMotion
SnapFlow
iDive
Videopier

Aquafadas digital publishing e-reader Hiroshi Mikitani Kobo Rakuten 楽天