Amazon acquires company to help it get in touch

February 3, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Amazon, perhaps is feeling some heat from a certain recently-revealed Apple device, has recently purchased Touchco,  a New York-based start-up specializing in touch-screen technology, according to the NYTimes. The company will relocate the 6-person startup to exotic Cupertino, California, home of Lab126, Amazon’s Kindle Hardware Division. 

Touchco, which began as a project at New York University