mocoNews.net - Unhealthily Obsessed with Mobile Content

Current Story

Qik Confirms $3 Million Round, Parent Name Change; Unveils WorldTV Broadcast Integration

By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 03:49 PM PST

Mobile video broadcast service Qik has raised a $3 million second round and is adding interoperability with upstart web TV platform WorldTV. The funds come from Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Arjun Gupta (Telesoft Partners) and George Garrick (Jingle Networks), NewTeeVee reported, confirming and adding to VentureBeat’s earlier story. Visivo is now dropping its name in favor of Qik, according to NewTeeVee.

At MipTV in Cannes on Thursday, we can reveal, Qik and UK-based WorldTV will announce users of the latter, who create their own embedded channels from a library of web video clips, can begin using Qik to stream live to those channels.

From Foster City, California-based Visivo and occupying similar spaces as Kyte and Ustream, mobile app Qik lets users stream live to the web from a camera-enabled phone, though clips are also recorded on the site for posterity. I’ve been using it on my new N95 for a few weeks and it works great. (Heavy users include Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis.)

Qik already lets users simulcast to Justin.tv and Mogulus, and auto-copy their videos to YouTube, Seesmic and Blogger. The WorldTV deal is in the same vein - recorded Qik clips can be strung together with those from other sources in a repeating playlist and a live Qik broadcast will, somewhat comically, interrupt the loop to go on-air. For WorldTV, it will add a much-needed live element, though it does already have interoperability with LiveVideo.com.

Posted in: Entertainment, Mobile Video, TV Tech, Money, VC M&A, Venture Capital

Tags: marc benioff, george garrick, arjun gupta, visivo, worldtv, qik,

Check our our new Social Media Deals Report, which examines the categories, number and size of VC and M&A deals into social media

Related Research from Alacrastore.com

0 Responses:
  • There are currently no comments for this article.

    Why don't you make one?

Post Your Comment

Mobile Options

» Mobile App
» Mobile/WAP Site

Send a News Tip

About

mocoNews.net is a news site covering the business of mobile content.

Rafat Ali
Publisher & Co-Editor

Staci D. Kramer
Co-Editor

Tricia Duryee
Principal Correspondent

Dianne See Morrison
Contributing Writer

James Quintana Pearce
Contributing Writer

Robert Andrews
U.K. Editor

EconCeleb Conference - The Economics of Celebrity. July 23 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood

Featured Report - 2008 Social Media Deals Report

front page of report

The economics of social media continue to heat up, with ever more buzz created in new and growing market categories. This report examines the categories, number and size of investment and acquisitions into social media and the resulting value created from 2007 through 2008. Order your report today to analyze deals made by Yahoo, Disney, Google, AOL, CBS, Hearst, Microsoft and many more.

Learn more or purchase now.

New Media/Interactive Job Listings

Post Job
More Jobs

Generous Supporters