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]
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References
- Vindu Goel. Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company The New York Times, 2016-01-10, retrieved 2020-07-02^
- Casey Newton. Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups The Verge, 2015-12-03, retrieved 2020-07-02^
- John Markoff. Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine New York Times, March 9, 2008^
- Lim Yung-Hui. Another Telco Giant NTT DOCOMO Invests In Silicon Valley "3D Wall" Creator Cooliris Forbes Magazine, June 18, 2012^
- Embeddable wall brings Cooliris to any website 24 September 2008^
- Leena Rao. Google Taps Cooliris To Enable Media Browsing On Nexus One Techcrunch, January 5, 2010^
- Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem www.techinasia.com, retrieved 2021-01-29^
- Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris 21 November 2014^