Apple has made an acqui-hire, buying Particle, a company that specializes in HTML development, Josh Lowensohn at CNET reports.
The purchase was made a few weeks ago, and not all of Particle's dozen employees continued on at Apple. Particle had worked with Apple in past on Apple.com, iAd, and iTunes Extra.
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Lowensohn speculates the team will be working on Apple's web applications like iCloud.com. If there's one place Apple is weak, it's on the web. Apple has never built great Internet-based services. So, beefing up the team that works on those products makes sense.