Editing Bitstream Inc. (section)

== History ==
The company had a high level of involvement in [[BeOS]], with older BeOS releases using a Bitstream renderer, and the latest development releases from 2001 using Font Fusion. The OS, including its freeware releases, included a large number of Bitstream fonts, including their clones of [[Times New Roman]], [[Helvetica]] and [[Courier (typeface)|Courier]].

On December 2, 1998, Bitstream Inc. announced acquisition of all outstanding stock of Type Solutions, Inc. In addition, Sampo Kaasila, its founder and president and the creator of [[TrueType]], agreed to join Bitstream's team as Director of Research and Development.

In March 2000, Bitstream launched [[MyFonts]], an open marketplace offering fonts from various foundries.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

In January 2009, Bitstream introduced the [[Bolt (web browser)|BOLT Browser]], a [[Java Platform, Micro Edition|Java ME]]-based [[Web browser]] for mobile phones. It was distributed free of charge to consumers and was built using the company's [[ThunderHawk]] mobile Web browsing technology for [[mobile network operator]]s and handset manufacturers. The product was discontinued by the end of 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boltbrowser.com/about.html|title=Bolt WebBrowser about page |access-date=1 February 2023 |date=2 February 2009 |work=the about page for the boltbrowser.com  |publisher=Bitstream, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202110806/http://boltbrowser.com/about.html |archive-date=2009-02-02 }}</ref>