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Reuters, Friday, July 29, 2011 9:45 AM

You know how you love your iPad? Except for maybe one minor annoyance. Apple hates Flash, and refuses to run it on iPad and iPhone, preferring HTML 5. That means Internet pages have to run applications using both Flash technology and versions for Apple devices.

But a new Skyfire app, VideoQ, offers a fix, letting users watch Flash within the app, via a link, Skyfire is planning on making VideoQ a video entertainment hub, but for now the product is a $1.99 app available first in North America only. California-based Skyfire plans to expand VideoQ reach later. Funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures, Skyfire said its most successful product, a mobile browser, has been downloaded 8 million times thus far.

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