Stealth Video Tagging Company Kicktag Raises $2 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:22:29 +0000

In an SEC filing, it was revealed that a stealth company called Kicktag has raised $2 million in funding. Michael Downing, the former CEO of GoFish, is the founder and CEO of Kicktag. He is also the former EIR at the Stanford Research Institute.

Frank Meehan and John McIntire is also involved in Kicktag. According to the LinkedIn profile of Michael Downing, Kicktag “helps video enthusiasts more effectively inform, educate and entertain audiences online – by enabling them to attach relevant and engaging data from across the web to each moment in any video.”

[TechCrunch]

INQ Mobile Planning To Launch Twitter Phone

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:11:39 +0000

INQ Mobile is a phone manufacturing company that is based in London. The company also has offices in Rome, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Beijing. INQ focuses on building mobile devices that are affordable and they generally have social networking features built in. The company’s latest announcement is that they are working on a mobile phone that revolves around Twitter.

In the past, INQ released a phone that revolved around Facebook and it was called INQ1. INQ’s Twitter phone will have the ability to receive 140 character messages directly. “This can really help open up and drive Twitter use on mobile when usage becomes part of your data package like on the PC,” stated INQ CEO Frank Meehan.

[via Mirror UK]

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