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!
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.

[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.

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