Cooliris

Cooliris Inc.
Industry	Computer software ; Online media
Founded	California (January 2006)
Founder	Soujanya Bhumkar; Mayank Mehta; Josh Schwarzapel; Austin Shoemaker;
Defunct	November 21, 2014
Fate	Acquired by Yahoo![1][2]
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Website	www.cooliris.com

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]

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". 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.
"Embeddable wall brings Cooliris to any website". 24 September 2008.
Leena Rao (January 5, 2010). "Google Taps Cooliris To Enable Media Browsing On Nexus One". Techcrunch.
"Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
"Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris". 21 November 2014.

External links

Anthony Ha, Techcrunch. "Cooliris Partners With Renren To Launch Localized Photo App In China". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
Ken Yeung, TheNextWeb (28 November 2012). "With 250m+ photos viewed, Cooliris updates iOS app, grabs pics from Google Drive, Flickr, others". Retrieved 2012-11-28.
Jason Snell, Macworld. "Mac Word: A new way to look at online images". Retrieved 2006-10-19.

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[1] 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.

[2] Newton, Casey (2015-12-03). "Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-07-02.

[3] John Markoff (March 9, 2008). "Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine". New York Times.

[4] Lim Yung-Hui (June 18, 2012). "Another Telco Giant NTT DOCOMO Invests In Silicon Valley "3D Wall" Creator Cooliris". Forbes Magazine.

[5] "Embeddable wall brings Cooliris to any website". 24 September 2008.

[6] Leena Rao (January 5, 2010). "Google Taps Cooliris To Enable Media Browsing On Nexus One". Techcrunch.

[7] "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.

[8] "Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris". 21 November 2014.