One more acquisition of Research In Motion (RIM) – TinyHippos, the mobile web development company. TinyHippos specialises in making cross-platform development tools. These tools offer a web based environment to web development team to test their applications before launching them.

Research In Motion (RIM) is a Canadian designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless devices and solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. The company is best known as the developer of the Blackberry smart phone. So primarily RIM has acquired TinyHippos for its multi-platform mobile environment emulator called as Ripple emulator. This Ripple emulator comes as an extension for Google Chrome. The web app allows developers to test the performance of their applications on several mobile environments straight from their web browser.

In an announcement on both RIM’s development blog and TinyHippos blog, the BlackBerry manufacturer said that it bought the Waterloo-based development team (RIM is also based in Waterloo) for their extensive experience in web and mobile widget/web development. Terms of the deal are not disclosed.

According to Tech Crunch, the platform, which was launched back in 2009, also allows developers to test and debug HTML 5 based mobile apps. Ripple also lets developers test the device and screen resolutions of their apps.

RIM plans to integrate Ripple into its developer platform to enhance its developer tool offerings for Blackberry and PlayBook app makers.

“This is a great step towards our goal of providing a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool to developers worldwide. Specifically, we will be working to bring BlackBerry support to the Ripple product,” the TinyHippos team said in a blog post.

TinyHippos also alleged that Ripple will be existing for download as before, and they will continue to add more features to the product and give support to their partners.