After spinning it out, Numecent buys back its Approxy cloud-gaming division

Numecent, a maker of a promising cloud technology dubbed “cloud paging,” has acquired Approxy, a cloud-gaming startup that it spun out a couple of years ago.

The reason is that the company believes it will be easier to sell its technology to game publishers, who can use it to deliver big games instantly over an online connection. Cloud paging can magically virtualize any kind of software in the cloud, even an entire operating system like Windows. That software can then run in the cloud without modifications and run over an online connection as quickly on your computer as if it was installed on it.