Company:Cooliris
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| Industry | Computer software Online media |
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| Fate | Acquired by Yahoo![1][2] |
| Founded | California (January 2006) |
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| Defunct | November 21, 2014 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www |
Cooliris, Inc. was a United States corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, that developed photo viewing products on mobile, web, and desktop platforms. It was a venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,[3] T-Venture, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group and NTT DOCOMO.[4]
History
The company was initially best known for its signature user interface, the Cooliris 3D Wall, which provided a 3D-like immersive media-viewing experience.[5]
In January 2010, Google, Inc. tapped Cooliris to develop Android Gallery, a native photo application installed on over 40 million smartphones then running the Android operating system.[6] The company’s core product was the Cooliris mobile photo viewing and sharing app for iPad and iPhone, launched in July 2012.[7]
On November 21, 2014, Cooliris was acquired by Yahoo!.[8]
References
- ↑ Goel, Vindu (2016-01-10). "Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/technology/yahoos-brain-drain-shows-a-loss-of-faith-inside-the-company.html.
- ↑ Newton, Casey (2015-12-03). "Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/9837816/yahoo-messenger-relaunches.
- ↑ John Markoff (March 9, 2008). "Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09stream.html?ex=1362718800&en=0c340cd774934c9f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.
- ↑ Lim Yung-Hui (June 18, 2012). "Another Telco Giant NTT DOCOMO Invests In Silicon Valley "3D Wall" Creator Cooliris". Forbes Magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/06/18/another-telco-giant-ntt-docomo-invests-in-silicon-valley-3d-wall-creator-cooliris.
- ↑ "Embeddable wall brings Cooliris to any website". 24 September 2008. https://venturebeat.com/2008/09/24/embeddable-wall-brings-cooliris-to-any-website/.
- ↑ Leena Rao (January 5, 2010). "Google Taps Cooliris To Enable Media Browsing On Nexus One". Techcrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/05/google-taps-cooliris-to-enable-media-browsing-on-nexus-one.
- ↑ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem" (in en-US). https://www.techinasia.com/new-cooliris-mobile-app-makes-photo-sharing-and-viewing-a-visual-feast.
- ↑ "Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris". https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/21/yahoo-acquires-cooliris/.
External links
- Anthony Ha, Techcrunch. "Cooliris Partners With Renren To Launch Localized Photo App In China". https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/cooliris-renren-china/.
- Ken Yeung, TheNextWeb (28 November 2012). "With 250m+ photos viewed, Cooliris updates iOS app, grabs pics from Google Drive, Flickr, others". https://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/28/cooliris-updates-ios-app-sourcing-from-google-drive-picasa-flickr/.
- Jason Snell, Macworld. "Mac Word: A new way to look at online images". http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macword/2006/10/piclens/index.php.
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