AOL has purchased mobile application developer Rally Up to improve its mobile application offerings. For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its desktop and web offerings, but also include new products that launch first on mobile devices. Rally Up will be based in AOL’s new West Coast office in Palo Alto and work closely with David Temkin, the Vice President of Mobile at AOL. “Within the last year, the Rally Up team has demonstrated its keen understanding of the way that people want to use their mobile devices to inter
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