Cooliris
Cooliris, Inc. was a US 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]
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 | San Francisco, California , |
Website | www |
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.
On November 21, 2014, Cooliris was acquired by Yahoo!.[7]
References
- Goel, Vindu (2016-01-10). "Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
- Newton, Casey (2015-12-03). "Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
- John Markoff (March 9, 2008). "Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine". New York Times.
- Lim Yung-Hui (June 18, 2012). "Another Telco Giant NTT DOCOMO Invests In Silicon Valley "3D Wall" Creator Cooliris". Forbes Magazine.
- 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/2014/11/21/yahoo-acquires-cooliris/
External links
- Anthony Ha, Techcrunch. "Cooliris Partners With Renren To Launch Localized Photo App In China". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- Ken Yeung, TheNextWeb. "With 250m+ photos viewed, Cooliris updates iOS app, grabs pics from Google Drive, Flickr, others". Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- Mozilla Foundation. "Firefox Recommended Add-ons". Retrieved 2007-02-11.
- Jason Snell, Macworld. "Mac Word: A new way to look at online images". Retrieved 2006-10-19.