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| Sep 26, 2014 | Yahoo will shut down Qwiki, the iOS video app it bought last year | Yahoo immediately shuts down the services from many of the startups it buys. Its acquisition last year of Qwiki, a startup with an iOS app that makes videos out of people’s photos, was different, because it kept the app up and running.
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| Sep 26, 2014 | Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory | Yahoo announced today it’s shuttering a handful of products, including Qwiki, a mobile app Yahoo acquired last July for $50 million, which helps users create movies from the photos and videos in their Camera Roll. Also getting the boot are ... |
| Sep 26, 2014 | Yahoo will shut down Qwiki, the iOS video app it bought last year | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Yahoo immediately shuts down the services from many of the startups it buys. Its acquisition last year of Qwiki, a startup with an iOS ... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | Qwiki Acquired by Yahoo! | According to the company’s blog, Qwiki, a NYC-based provider of a video creation platform for mobile devices, has been acquired by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Co-founded by CEO Doug Imbruce and Louis Mon... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (TalentHack, NY Tech Meetup, PandoMonthly, Enterprise Tech, Queens Tech Meetup, Camp Interactive, Common Bond Social) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | Yahoo buys video app Qwiki for a reported $50 million | Qwiki is an iOS app that turns pictures and videos from a user’s camera roll into movies to share
Another day, another start up bought up by Yahoo.
Literally the day after it was revealed that Yahoo had bought fantasy sports app Bignoggins,... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Yahoo buys iOS video app Qwiki (and surprisingly won’t kill it) | 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 seems like Yahoo is buying up any startup it c... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Qwiki’s New Storytelling iPhone App Was Downloaded 125K Times In Six Days | Startup Qwiki launched a new iPhone app a little more than a week ago, and it now says that the app was downloaded 125,000 times in the first six days, with 27,000 Qwikis created.
A Qwiki is a slideshow-style video automatically assembled f... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | One-Tap Storytelling: Qwiki Sheds Its Web And Search Roots, Goes Mobile-Only With Beta Launch Of New iPhone App | In an attempt to shed its web-based search roots in favor of a mobile-only media format, Qwiki today is unveiling an iPhone app that looks to channel the noise of mobile over-sharing through curated storytelling. The release leverages the c... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Qwiki’s Next Move: Mobile-Only; Web App To Transition To A Pro Tool | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki appears to be shifting its focus, from a web-based creation tool to mobile-only.
For background, Qwikis are essentially multimedia presentations, complete with narration. In May, Qwiki announced a new Creator... |
| Sep 11, 2012 | TechCrunch Disrupt: Where Are They Now? | With TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in full swing this week, it’s only a matter of days before a new winner is crowned. We decided to check in with previous Disrupt winners to see how they’ve fared since their victories – and try to determine h... |
| Aug 7, 2012 | Startup News: Gilt Group now has Search Capabilities; Codeacademy Can Help You Learn Python | The redesigned Nestio iPhone app.
Hunting season Nestio has redesigned its iPhone app, designed to help apartment hunters stay organized and share information with friends. In addition to improved camera functionality, the 2.0 version has s... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Meograph provides “fourth dimension” to multimedia storytelling | A Meograph of the Trayvon Martin case
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| Jun 18, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Bing Adds Qwiki’s Multimedia Presentations To Its Search Results | Qwiki seems to be spreading. Last month, it announced a new Creator platform for publishers and bloggers that’s already being used by ABC News and others. Now it’s announcing a partnership with Bing.
The companies say that Qwikis, which are... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | How about a Qwiki? Bing embeds video presentations in search results | They may be quickies of a different kind, but a rendezvous between Microsoft and New York-based startup Qwiki has brought the young company’s interactive video presentations to search results for faster, more pleasing experiences.
Beginning... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | How about a Qwiki? Bing embeds video presentations in search results | 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!
They may be quickies of a different kind, but a r... |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Wibbitz Raises $2.3M Series A For Technology That Turns Text Into Videos | Wibbitz, a company whose tagline once called it the “play button for the web” (it’s now just “text-to-video”) has closed a $2.3 million Series A round headed up by Horizons Ventures, the internet and technology investment fund belonging to ... |
| May 23, 2012 | Qwiki takes its multimedia presentation technology to the newsroom | 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!
Startup Qwiki wants to change the way we experien... |
| May 23, 2012 | Qwiki Launches A Publishing Platform For ABC News And Others | Qwiki, the startup that won Disrupt in San Francisco two years ago, is announcing a new platform today for bloggers and other online publishers.
The company’s initial product basically assembled a multimedia “story” around Wikipedia article... |
| May 23, 2012 | Startup News: Everyone’s Launching Everything All the Time At TechCrunch Disrupt | TC Disrupt NYC 2012
The News In News It’s a big day for Qwiki. When last we heard from the company, Qwiki was turning info from Wikipedia and elsewhere into multimedia visual presentations. After a brief period in San Francisco, the company... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | Qwiki Moves Headquarters To NYC, Preps Big Update For 2012 | Disrupt 2010 winner Qwiki has had quite an interesting year — after they launched in January 2011, they pulled in $9 million in funding and lost co-founder/Google alum Louis Monier.
Now they’re hoping that a change of scenery will do the co... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Robot Network Seeks to Enlist Your Computer to Beat Fox, CNN to Breaking News Video | Like Qwiki plus Newsy, powered by SETI@Home.
A South Korean startup called Shakr aims to use the processing power of its users’ distributed computers to create video news coverage of breaking events faster than international news giants can... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Qwiki Embraces HTML5 And Takes The Next Content Step With The Qwiki Editor | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, last year’s winner, Qwiki, took the stage to give an update on their business. We originally noted that they may be the future of information consumption. But that information was largely pre-packaged at the tim... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Now anyone can make a Wall-E style narrated encyclopedia with Qwiki | 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!
Qwiki, an online Wikipedia-esque service that dis... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Wibbitz Raises Seed Funding To Turn Articles Into Video Summaries | Wibbitz, a new service that functions as sort of a “play button” for the Web, has just raised a seed round of approximately half a million. The service is similar to former TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki, in that it, too, automatically gen... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | Qwiki’s iPad app has been downloaded 500,000 times | Qwiki, the company that offers a new, interactive way to explore a wide range of topics, announced today that its iPad application has been downloaded almost 500,000 times.
After the San Francisco company first opened its website to the pub... |
| May 25, 2011 | Qwiki Will Soon Let You Qwiki Yourself | TechCrunch Disrupt winner and alum Qwiki took the stage today for an update on news from the startup. What makes Qwiki so compelling is its ability to generate media on the fly that combines text, audio, and animated photos. It presents inf... |
| May 25, 2011 | CloudFlare brings its speed and security to web apps, hits 3.5B monthly page views | After bringing pro-level speed and security to any website, plucky startup CloudFlare is now setting its sights on web apps with CloudFlare Apps.
The new service will make it easy for site owners to install web apps without changing any cod... |
| May 18, 2011 | Qwiki Cofounder Louis Monier Exits, Joins Proximic | TechCrunch Disrupt: San Francisco 2011 winner Qwiki has a hot iPad app (250,000 downloads in 11 days) and plenty of cash. But one thing they no longer have is cofounder Louis Monier. He’s left the company, he tells me, to join Proximic as C... |
| May 3, 2011 | Qwiki iPad App Hits 250K Downloads In 11 Days | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki launched its iPad app in the App Store a less than a week ago and after 11 days has hit the quarter of a million downloads milestone. This is notable for an iPad app, especially when compared to other highly ... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Qwiki's Mapolicious iPad App Hits iTunes | A couple weeks ago, Qwiki CEO Doug Imbruce came by my office to talk about his new iPad app (watch video below), but he wasn’t quite ready to show it. This morning it finally hit iTunes, where you can download it for free.
In many ways, Qwi... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Move Over Flipboard: Qwiki is the iPad’s Newest Killer App | “It’s clear that the future of media consumption is tablets and mobile…if there’s anywhere to be experimenting as a company, it’s in the acceleration of content off the desktop. It’s a whole new world and now we need new tools.” So says Dou... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Qwiki's iPad Moment Is Coming (TCTV) | Ever since Qwiki won the last TechCrunch Disrupt in September, it’s been working on an iPad app. In fact, one of its overexcited developers showed me a peek back then. Well, it’s come along way since then, and Qwiki is currently working on ... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Lightbank Adds $1M to Qwiki Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco-based Qwiki, which is building an automated multimedia encyclopedia on the Web, said yesterday that it has added $1 million to the $8 million funding around it o... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Qwiki Raises $1M | Qwiki, a San Francisco, CA-based company that is developing a technology platform that transforms data into interactive, rich-media information experience, has raised an additional $1m in financing from Lightbank.
The company intends to use... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Disrupt Winner Qwiki Raises, Like, $1 Million From Groupon Co-Founders | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki is on a roll. The visual search startup raised $8 million earlier this year from a number of well-knowninvestors including early Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. And today, the startup is announcing that ... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Qwiki raises additional $1M for Series A | The startup gets extra funding from Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky
Qwiki, the rich media site that seeks to “forever improve the way people experience information," on Thursday announced the addition of another $1 ... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Exclusive: Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $6.5M Round For Jumio | Jumio is still gearing up for the launch of its online and mobile payments solution, due for release in 6 to 8 weeks, but the company has lined up an investor that is sure to draw even more attention to the stealth startup than the recent a... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | The top 10 start-up billionaires | The world’s major economies may have struggled to get back to pre-GFC growth levels last year, but the world’s wealthiest people appear to have been nicely insulated.
According to Forbes’ annual billionaire rankings, the 1,200-strong list i... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Qwiki Relocates to SF | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Qwiki, the Silicon Valley startup whose algorithsm assemble Web media into mini-documentaries on millions of subjects, has abandoned its original home—“a garage behind a rug s... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Video Search Engine Qwiki Is Now Available To The Public | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki launches publicly at 12pm PST today after a week filled with the news, most notably that of an $8 million funding round led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and YouTube founder Jawed Karim. Qwiki, for t... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | In Defense of Qwiki – The Machine That Reads to You | Video artist Ze Frank used to say that it would take him all day long to produce each of his five to ten minute long pieces. That’s not unusual: creation of multi-media content is incredibly time and resource expensive, especially compared ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Qwiki goes live, pushes boundaries of Web | The site promises to be the next generation of information consumption on the Web
Qwiki, a startup whose stated goal is to fundamentally change the way human beings experience information, announced Monday the public debut of Qwiki.com. The... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Qwiki’s Wall-E style narrated online encyclopedia goes live for everyone | Much-lauded startup Qwiki — an online Wikipedia-esque service that throws displays information with computer-generated voices, images and video — is coming out of private alpha and opening up to everyone today.
The service basically feels l... |
| Jan 22, 2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Qwiki Hits No. 1 On Google Trends 'Hot Searches' In The U.S. | Buoyed by news that early Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin led an $8 million investment in the startup, TechCrunch Disrupt winner and visual search startup Qwiki has hit no.1 on Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ in the U.S. That’s a pretty im... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin Leads Qwiki's $8 Million Round | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki has closed its $8 million series A financing, which I first reported a couple weeks ago when it was midway through the round. Now we know the investors, and it is a very interesting group. The largest investo... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Qwiki Closes $8M Series A Funding Round | Qwiki, a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of a technology that transforms data into rich-media narratives, closed an $8m Series A funding round.
Investors include individual backers including Eduardo Saverin (co-founder, Facebook), Jawed Karim... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin invests in Qwiki | Qwiki, a startup that describes itself as delivering a new “information experience,” just announced that it has raised $8 million in its first institutional round of funding.
I wrote about Qwiki earlier this month, when the funding was reve... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Qwiki closes $8M round led by Eduardo Saverin | The multimedia search site promises to be the next generation of information consumption
Qwiki’s mission statement is grand and nebulous: The company’s goal is to “forever improve the way people experience information.” That doesn’t sound s... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Disrupt Winner Qwiki Is In The Middle Of Raising A Quick $8 Million | Qwiki, the visual search startup that won the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt last September is in the middle of raising as much as $8 million in a series A financing. According to an SEC filing, it has already sold $5 million worth of the ... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Multimedia search startup Qwiki raising $8M | Qwiki, a new service that delivers information through rich multimedia presentations, is raising an $8 million round of funding, according a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Palo Alto, Calif. company launched at the T... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| Nov 5, 2010 | A Qwiki Snapshot Of AOL | This is too funny not to post. The screen grab above comes from Qwiki, the visual search engine which came away with the top prize at our last TechCrunch Disrupt. Qwiki is still in private alpha , but it essentially assembles a visual narra... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Qwiki and Storify: Disruptive storytelling comes of age | On October 26, Qwiki, a new “information experience” platform, opened its doors to pre-invited users as an Alpha web product. As this year’s winning startup of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, a lot of expectation is riding on co-founde... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Qwiki and Storify: Disruptive storytelling comes of age | On October 26, Qwiki, a new “information experience” platform, opened its doors to pre-invited users as an Alpha web product. As this year’s winning startup of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, a lot of expectation is riding on co-founde... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | How Singapore Could Become the Most Important City in the Emerging World | I am standing in a living-room-of-the-future. You can navigate the TV using hand movements, instantly swishing and touching to get subtitles to any international programming. Yes, a la Minority Report – but from across the room. Doesn’t eve... |
| Oct 24, 2010 | Qwiki Has No Qwiki For Qwiki | The world is starting to get a first hand glimpse of TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki. And one of the things they’re noticing is this – Qwiki has no qwiki for Qwiki.
In other words, the site turns up no results for the query “qwiki,” and app... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | Disrupt Winner Qwiki Arrives In Private Alpha (1,000 Invites) | When Qwiki won the top $50,000 prize at TechCrunch Disrupt a few weeks ago, after much celebrating, co-founders Louis Monier and Doug Imbruce promised the service would start to open up privately in October. Today, they are making good on t... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | This Is What Winning Feels Like, Smiling Cigar Guy Edition | Meet “Where’s Smiling Cigar Guy?,” the breakout meme star of such photos as “Tiger Woods Hits Ball At Photographer” (see below) and such Tumblrs as Smiling Cigar Man | Awesome Face Fan.
So, imagine how honored we were when we realized after... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | A Super Sneak Peak At Qwiki On The iPad | Yesterday, at Disrupt it took a long time for the judges to decide to award the top prize to Qwiki, the visual information consumption service that presents information in a fluid assemblage of photos, videos, and spoken words. It’s the kin... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Startup Battlefield: The Final 7 Make Their Closing Arguments | The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield is approaching its dramatic conclusion, and the 7 finalists remaining are making their closing arguments in front of a panel of all-star Silicon Valley judges. Here are their questions and the star... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Qwiki wants to be the multimedia search engine of the future | Startup Qwiki unveiled a new service today that it calls the future of information consumption.
Co-founder Doug Imbruce, who demonstrated Qwiki on-stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, compared the site to what you se... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And It's Here Now. | In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator. These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer. But that’... |
| Yahoo! продолжает покупать стартапы? | Компания Yahoo! последние полгода радует интернет-рынок своими покупками стартапов. Она уже поглотила такие проекты, как соцсеть Tumblr, приложения Summly и Astrid. Сейчас появилась информация, что Yahoo! ведет переговоры о покупке мобильно... |