| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.12.2015 | Yahoo Messenger revamped to focus on speed and Tumblr GIFs — too little, too late? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How many messaging apps do you have on your phone? Go on, take a look. We’ll wait…
Chances are, you might have Facebook Messenger, What... |
| 27.01.2015 | Seeking higher daily engagement, Yahoo CEO hints at messaging product | Monthly active users are a fine metric, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to grow the number of people who touch her company’s products daily. To do that, she’s considering messaging.
“We want fewer tourists and more fanatics, [people] who ... |
| 28.11.2014 | Yahoo! Acquires Cooliris | Cooliris, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of visually immersive media and communication experiences for mobile and web consumers, has been acquired by Yahoo! (YHOO).
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Led by Soujanya Bhumk... |
| 21.11.2014 | Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris | Photo app-maker Cooliris just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo.
It’s been a long road to this exit. Cooliris was founded back in 2006 and was initially known for creating a “3D wall” for navigating photos and other media content... |
| 26.06.2014 | Cooliris Launches BeamIt, Its New Photo-Centric Messaging App | Cooliris, maker of the photo-browsing app of the same name, is getting into the messaging business today with the launch of a new app called BeamIt.
When co-founder and CEO Soujanya Bhumkar gave me a demo of the app earlier this week, he ar... |
| 31.10.2013 | Zombie apocalypse, meet tech: HootSuite, Zendesk, Pinterest, and more get freaky for Halloween | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s Halloween tonight, and tech is celebrating w... |
| 31.10.2013 | Zombie apocalypse, meet tech: HootSuite, Zendesk, Pinterest, and more get freaky for Halloween | It’s Halloween tonight, and tech is celebrating with treats, freaks, and more than a little dressing up. Well, at least those tech companies that like to have fun.
This week, HootSuite and Zendesk engaged in a little zombie apocalypse compe... |
| 20.10.2013 | Cooliris Reports Big Growth in Asia And 3B Connected Photos | Over the past year, photo app Cooliris has been announcing a number of international partnerships with companies like Renren, Yandex, and most recently Baidu.
Earlier this week I met with Cooliris CEO Soujanya Bhumkar and VP of Business Dev... |
| 09.07.2013 | Cooliris Continues Push Into China and Russia, Shaking Hands With Tencent and Yandex | Photo-sharing startup Cooliris is continuing its push into two of the world’s biggest Internet markets, China and Russia.
The Kleiner Perkins-backed company has just partnered with Tencent in China to pull images from Tencent’s microbloggin... |
| 04.04.2013 | Cooliris Adds A Social Layer To Its Photo-Browsing Apps With ‘Endless Discovery’ Features | Cooliris is aiming to make its photo-browsing experience more addictive today with the launch of new features in its iPhone and iPad apps that it describes collectively as an attempt to offer “endless discovery.”
The company, which is backe... |
| 08.02.2013 | Cooliris Expands Again With Yandex Partnership, Hits 3 Million Downloads On iOS | Cooliris, the Kleiner Perkins-backed photo browsing and sharing startup, is again expanding its footprint in key emerging markets, this time in Russia thanks to a new partnership with Yandex. The move follows the company’s launch of a local... |
| 18.12.2012 | Cooliris Partners With Renren To Launch Localized Photo App In China | Kleiner Perkins-backed Cooliris is taking the next step in international expansion today with the launch of a localized version of its photo-browsing app in China. To give Chinese adoption an extra boost, it has also partnered with Renren, ... |
| 10.09.2012 | Amobee Launches Its 3D Mobile Ad Builder PULSE Create | Amobee, the mobile ad serving company recently acquired by Asian carrier SingTel, is launching a new ad building product called PULSE Create.
Amobee CEO Trevor Healy says the PULSE Create technology comes from the acquisition of AdJitsu. I ... |
| 26.07.2012 | Cooliris Brings Its 3D Photo Wall To iPad (Finally!) | Cooliris, if anything, knows how to adapt and keep moving forward. Founded in 2006, the company is best known for its 3D browser add-on which created an immersive photo-viewing experience on the web. But maybe that technology was just a lit... |
| 08.05.2012 | Singtel’s Amobee Buys AdJitsu To Take Mobile Ads Into The Third Dimension | Another bit of consolidation in the mobile advertising space — this time with an ad-tech twist: Amobee, the mobile ad company that itself was the subject of a takeover by Singtel only two months ago, has now bought an ad startup of its own:... |
| 08.05.2012 | Amobee snaps up AdJitsu for 3D mobile ads you can play with | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hot off of its $321 million acquisition by Singapore carrier SingTel, mobile ad firm Amobee today announced that it has acquired AdJits... |
| 08.05.2012 | Amobee snaps up AdJitsu for 3D mobile ads you can play with | Hot off of its $321 million acquisition by Singapore carrier SingTel, mobile ad firm Amobee today announced that it has acquired AdJitsu, a company that specializes in interactive 3D ads.
As you can see in the video below, AdJitsu’s technol... |
| 25.01.2012 | Could You Ever Love An Ad? | Today, ads are something we skip. They coat everything we watch, read and listen to like a sticky film, blinking and shouting and shocking us into paying attention. Their value is measured in “impressions,” how many people’s eyeballs scan p... |
| 06.12.2011 | How To Make Ads That Don’t Suck | Ads are as much a part of the Web as all that other stuff next to them, such as blog posts. We’ve gotten used to getting much (or all) of our online content for free, so we pay with our eyeballs instead. Advertisers pay publishers for littl... |
| 17.11.2011 | Cooliris and Smaato Join Forces to Serve Stunning 3D Display Advertisements to Over 200 Countries Worldwide | A Global Partnership for Rich Media Mobile Advertising
Palo Alto, Calif and San Francisco, CA – Nov 17, 2011 – Cooliris' 3D ads business unit, AdJitsu, and Smaato, a pioneer in mobile advertising technology company, today announce a new ric... |
| 07.10.2011 | This Is Your Brain on 3D Ads | What makes a good advertisement? From a consumer’s standpoint, a good ad is entertaining, helpful, and hopefully not too much of an interruption. Ads are a part of life for consumers, especially on the Web. In exchange for getting all this ... |
| 16.08.2011 | Cooliris and Amobee Put the Third Dimension into Mobile Advertising | PALO ALTO, CA and REDWOOD CITY, CA – AUGUST 16, 2011– Cooliris’ new standalone immersive 3D ads business unit, AdJitsu, and Amobee, the company defining mobile advertising, today announce the launch of a new partnership that will enable big... |
| 08.06.2011 | New Apps for iPhone & Android, May/June 2011 | In this continuing series here on ReadWriteWeb, we round up some of our favorite new applications for smartphones each month, specifically for iPhone and Android devices. This spring edition includes some major new launches on Android, like... |
| 11.05.2011 | Cooliris’ Decks Apps Makes App Discovery Fun | Application and content discovery on the iPad can be a daunting task, especially for new users. Users often get a feeling of “I know this is a cool piece of technology, but I don’t know what to do with it.” Sometimes it takes a tech geek fr... |
| 28.04.2011 | Cooliris Turns Liveshare Into An Insanely Fast Media Sharing Tool | Silicon Valley startup Cooliris demoed the next version of its social communication and media sharing app LiveShare to me earlier this week, and I was blown away by exactly how instant the sharing of photos, videos and whatnot has become.
T... |
| 28.04.2011 | LiveShare bets that the future of media sharing is all about speed (video) | Kleiner Perkins-backed startup Cooliris recently announced a big shift in its strategy, launching a photo-sharing application called LiveShare. Now co-founder and chief executive Soujanya Bhumkar wants to make it clear that there are some b... |
| 28.02.2011 | Cooliris shows off its cool 3D ads for the iPad (video) | Media browsing startup Cooliris’ business plan has always revolved around high-quality, good-looking ads, and even though it recently refocused on its mobile photo app LiveShare, chief executive Soujanya Bhumkar said he’s still pushing forw... |
| 14.02.2011 | Cooliris collects a $9.6 million Series C | Media browser plugin, group photo sharing with LiveShare and more all created by Cooliris
Online media company Cooliris announced Monday that it has raised $9.6 million in Series C funding from existing investors, which include Kleiner Perk... |
| 14.02.2011 | Cooliris raised $9.6M in Series C Funding | Cooliris, the Palo Alto, California-based developer of LiveShare, a hyper-personal way to communicate with friends across mobile and web through live, shared group photo streams, has raised $9.6m in Series C funding.
Investors include exist... |
| 14.02.2011 | Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Photo Sharing App | Multimedia browser plugin Cooliris, which lets you view photo and video content on the web in a more visually appealing manner (screencap above), has snagged $9.6 million in Series C financing from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufie... |
| 14.02.2011 | Cooliris’ new LiveShare app refocuses on photo-sharing | Palo Alto startup Cooliris has built its reputation by creating a slick experience for browsing photos, videos, and other media, but now it’s making the famous Silicon Valley “pivot” with a new mobile and Web application called LiveShare.
C... |
| 21.10.2010 | Is YouTube Play A Sign Of Things To Come? | YouTube Play is some artsy partnership between YouTube, HP and the Guggenheim Museum in New York that highlights 25 most creative YouTube videos in something called the Biennial of Creative Video. Apparently muy respected art world figures ... |
| 27.09.2010 | Fabric Video Wants To Change The Way You Search For Videos | Similar to Cooliris, Japanese startup Gunzoo aims to change the way people search for and view multiple videos through their Fabric Video product, which launches today at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Founded by Toshikazu Shinohara, Gunzoo and Fabric... |
| 26.07.2010 | Discover by Cooliris: Wikipedia Never Looked This Good | Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, but the sparse design of the service isn’t likely to win awards. On the iPad, on the other hand, we are now seeing a trend towards beautiful apps like Flipboard, which combines des... |
| 07.07.2010 | Hands-on with the Hitachi Life Studio Mobile Plus | The Hitachi Life Studio is supposed to be the next generation of portable drives. Aside from the odd addition of a magnetic flash drive to the front of the case, this clever little drive includes media management software from Cooliris that... |
| 21.04.2010 | Cooliris Upgrades Embeddable Media Walls And Express Creation Tools | Übercool media sharing technology company Cooliris is beefing up two of its core products, Cooliris Express and the embeddable Cooliris Wall.
The latter product is gaining more and more adoption, the company tells me, growing from an averag... |
| 21.04.2010 | Cooliris aims to boost pageviews for publishers of its 3D wall | Cooliris, a much-watched maker of tools for browsing images and videos on websites, has been promoting its Cooliris Wall as a way for publishers to add lots of good-looking, engaging content. Through the Wall, they can present images, video... |
| 05.04.2010 | John Doerr: The Next Big Thing | This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on... |
| 11.01.2010 | Nexus One and Android 2.1: Apple Better Watch Out | Less than a week ago, Google introduced its own Android phone, the Nexus One. Over the weekend, we got a chance to take the phone through its paces and while we aren’t quite ready to give up our iPhone yet, the Nexus One is a formidable cha... |
| 05.01.2010 | Google Taps Cooliris To Enable Media Browsing On Nexus One | Big news for Cooliris this morning as Google unveiled its Nexus One “Superphone.” You can read our review of the phone here. The search and technology giant has tapped the startup to enable media browsing on its shiny new phone. The startup... |
| 05.01.2010 | Live Blog: Google’s Android Press Gathering | Google is holding a press event to showcase the new Nexus One and possibly some other mobile innovations today. We already know quite a few details about the phone itself, but hopefully Google will also have a few surprises up its sleeve. T... |
| 18.11.2009 | Look Mom, Cooliris Is On TV.com! | I don’t know about you, but I have a male geek crush on Cooliris, the startup behind this splendid technology that enables users to browse photos and videos from the Web, their desktops or their iPhone devices in a visually attractive 3D ma... |
| 29.09.2009 | Cooliris loses its chief revenue officer to AOL | Cooliris, the startup that developed a 3-D wall for users to explore images and other online media, lost one of its most notable hires today, when chief revenue officer Shashi Seth joined AOL.
Seth came to Cooliris in June 2008 from Google,... |
| 29.09.2009 | Cooliris loses its chief revenue officer to AOL | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cooliris, the startup that developed a 3-D wall f... |
| 16.09.2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by former California state controller and financial officer Steve Westly, just closed a $120 million fund to fuel revenue-generating cleantech companies. With 13 companies already in the Menlo ... |
| 16.09.2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by... |
| 21.08.2009 | Toobla: Collect and share your favorite stuff from the web. 1000 Beta accounts available. | Toobla.
Say it five times fast. Tooblatooblatooblatooblatoobla. There, that was easy wasn’t it. No? It wasn’t easy, you say? Well, repeating the memorable name is the hardest part about using this nifty new visual bookmarking/content sharin... |
| 16.07.2009 | Cooliris Business Model Surfaces: More Advertising We Actually Like | We don’t talk about Cooliris nearly often enough. The Palo Alto-based company has done a fantastic job in pushing the limits of interactive photo and video browsing with its 3D Wall, a plug-in for Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox that ... |
| 02.07.2009 | New Twine interface lets users visualize shared bookmarks | Social bookmarking service Twine attracted a lot of attention as an early poster boy for semantic technology, which it uses to help serve you links customized to your interests. But in addition to delivering smarter bookmarks, Twine just un... |
| 26.06.2009 | Cooliris’s Small Change Has a Big Impact on Usability | Cooliris, the browser extension that launches a 3D visual search interface to the web, has just updated their application with what at first seems to be just a minor upgrade. But don’t be fooled, this small change to the Cooliris add-on is ... |
| 18.06.2009 | Apple's 3D Movie Browser Patent hits a Wall
Categories
Search | Former Apple Engineer now with Cooliris
As an interesting side note, the sole author of this Apple patent, Kevin Quennesson, left Apple in April of this year to join Cooliris, creators of the Cooliris 3D Wall. Cooliris is also available for... |
| 27.05.2009 | Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that’s looking to become a “YouTube For Flash Games“, has closed a seed funding round led by Union Square Ventures, with independent investors Naval Ravikant (Hitforge) and Joshua Schachter (delicious) also ... |
| 28.04.2009 | Wyzo 3, The BitTorrent Web Browser | We first discovered Wyzo when it was released in June 2007. The project showed potential but many reported problems with the packaged FireTorrent extension during the early stages. The team had difficulty finding the right people to take th... |
| 14.04.2009 | Cooliris Comes to Linux, Becomes More Awesome | The Cooliris browser add-on was just updated to a new version that now offers something many users have been clamoring for: Linux support. With the 1.10 release of this 3D photo and video viewing plugin, Linux users running Firefox 3 can no... |
| 12.04.2009 | Cooliris raises $15M for (improved) 3D wall | Updated
Cooliris is launching a new version of its 3D wall today, one that makes it easier to explore images and other media on the web, on social networking sites, and now, even on your computer desktop. The Palo Alto, Calif. company is al... |
| 10.04.2009 | AMD Launches 3D Media Browser: Does Anyone Care? | For whatever reason this week’s launch of the beta version of AMD’s Fusion Media Explorer, the company’s first forray in the social media hub / browser space, isn’t being met with a mountain of buzz. For a 40-year old giant of a tech compan... |
| 10.03.2009 | File-sharing service Drop.io jumps into the streaming game, adds chat | It’s all about things happening in real-time these days. Facebook just announced its new streaming newsfeeds, and Twitter is the media’s darling. It only makes sense for other services to get in on the act while the getting’s good. One such... |
| 19.01.2009 | Pixsy Helps Publishers Monetize Video Embeds With 'Premium Feed' | Pixsy, a company that specializes in licensing its image and video search platform to other businesses, has launched a new product called “Premium Feed” that allows publishers to embed clips that can be easily monetized into their sites.
Wh... |
| 13.01.2009 | Shop and play games within Cooliris’ 3D wall | Cooliris, which lets you browse media as a three-dimensional wall, announced two additions to its “Discover” feature today: Shopping channels and the ability to play Flash games.
You can use Cooliris to browse a number of websites, includin... |
| 10.01.2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| 10.01.2009 | Facebook wins Crunchies 2008 'Best Overall' | Amid downturn, entrepreneurs recognized, and gathering sparks laughter
At the 2008 Crunchies award ceremony, held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco Friday evening, Facebook won the "Best Overall" award. The Crunchies, hosted ... |
| 09.01.2009 | Winners of the 2008 Crunchies | Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. The awards were sponsored by Tech... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 19.12.2008 | Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 | Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Goog... |
| 18.12.2008 | The 3D Web in 2008 | What’s going on with the 3D web? At one point, it was being heralded as the next big thing. Is that still the case? Take for example, the virtual world Second Life. Once a booming place where every business had set up their online presence,... |
| 11.12.2008 | The Business of Browser Add-ons | Today’s opening keynote at the Add-on-Con conference in Mountain View CA highlighted the similarities between monetizing add-ons and monetizing Web sites. Although distribution channels and products differ, according to moderator Jeremy Lie... |
| 03.12.2008 | Cooliris Release Features Personalization, New Ad Format | Cooliris – the extension that transforms your browser into a 3D environment for thumbing through photos and videos – has been a crowd favorite for its creative use of the browser platform. But one question always comes up: Can browser exten... |
| 03.12.2008 | Cooliris’ 3D wall gets a little more personal | Cooliris, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that creates a three-dimensional wall for exploring images and other media, has become more personalized with the latest release of its browser extension. This is another smart step that moves Co... |
| 13.11.2008 | 30 Days Later: 22 Apps We’re Still Using 1 Month After Finding Them | How easy is it to launch a new web application these days? Easy enough that we see scads of new ones every day, in our tips inbox, on other blogs, raining out of the sky like cats and dogs. We love many of them, we really do, but after that... |
| 21.10.2008 | Roundup: Yahoo, Apple pre-earnings reports, Akamai’s new ads, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Earnings: Yahoo may shortly be cutting employee compensation — This may be instead of or in addition to planned job cuts.
Earnings: Apple lowballs projections, as usual — Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog has a closer look ... |
| 24.09.2008 | Embeddable wall brings Cooliris to any website | I’ve been hearing a lot of positive things about Cooliris, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that allows users to explore media through a “fullscreen 3D” wall. Last week, the team shared some numbers that back up the positive buzz — the br... |
| 15.06.2008 | New version of PicLens lets you channel surf the web | Cooliris has just launched the newest version of its browser plug-in PicLens, allowing you to use the plug-in’s “fullscreen 3D” interface to explore more of the web through the PicLens Discovery feature, as well as new compatibility with Am... |
| 28.06.2007 | Cooliris introduces easier browsing with “previews” and “stacks” | Silicon Valley start-up Cooliris has released an improved version of a feature that lets you preview pages being linked to.
The idea behind it is to save you from having to click through.
There were drawbacks to Cooliris’ initial version, r... |
| 14.06.2007 | PicLens, the full-screen slideshow | Piclens is a new plug-in for your Firefox Internet browser that lets you launch into a full-screen into a slideshow while browsing photos.
After you download PicLens, here’s how it works.
First, let’s say you want to look at all the picture... |
| 16.05.2007 | Interclue – New Web Previews App Launches | Back in January, Alex Iskold reviewed a number of ‘web previews’ tools – including Browster, Cooliris, Snap and Sphere. A couple of others are iReader and Blogrovr, although the latter is more about delivering content than previewing it. We... |
| 26.03.2007 | Snap Preview Anywhere Launches Localized Versions | Later
today Web previews product Snap is launching 8
new localized versions of their Snap Preview Anywhere
product. They will support 9 languages in all:
English (by Default)
Japanese
Korean
Chinese – Simplified
Chinese – Traditional
French... |
| 08.01.2007 | Browster Is Gone, But Are Web Previews Here To Stay? | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus
Last week it was
reported that Browster, one of the first
companies to deliver previews of web pages, is done. Browster drew a lot of attention in
2005 and was backed by a 6M first round... |
| 17.11.2006 | Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more | Updated
The latest round-up from tech-land:
Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t dete... |
| 20.10.2006 | PicLens: Super Size Your Slide Shows | PicLens is a new photo viewing plug in from CoolIris. The tool lets user watch a full screen slide show of any photo series from Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, and image search results Google, Yahoo!, and Ask. The software is sparse on feat... |
| 14.08.2006 | Browster 2.0 makes MySpace easier to use | Browser plug in Browster released version 2.0 of its product this weekend and is aiming to make MySpace profiles easier to view. A Windows download for IE and Firefox, Browster preloads pages from search results and provides a live minibrow... |
| 14.06.2006 | Cooliris now supports previews for Safari | Cooliris is a service that provides pop-up previews of the contents of a link when you hover over it. Previously only available for Firefox and Explorer, the company has now released a version for Safari.
While other services perform this f... |
| 11.04.2006 | Cooliris Copies Browster | Cooliris is a Firefox plugin that duplicates the Browster search preview functionality, although only on Google. Once the plugin is installed, you hover your mouse over a Google search link or image and the underlying content is pulled up o... |
| 11.04.2006 | Catchup: Google’s Orion, bubbling Internet IPOs, Web 2.0 ad nauseum | Here’s the latest, as of Tuesday afternoon:
Ori Allon
Google to let you avoid clicking through to pages? — Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly... |
| 20.03.2006 | Catchup Monday: Pinger, NBX, Cooliris, SnoCap & more | Here’s the recent news in Silicon Valley deal-making and start-up world worth highlighting:
It’s back to 1999! — Palo Alto start-up PageBites is paying people $100 to go for an interview. It is also paying a $20,000 bonus, which reminds us ... |
