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Intel Capital Invests $26 Million In Borqs, Cloudmade, InVisage, Kaltura, SecureKey, and VisionOSS
Intel Capital has invested $26 million into six companies. The companies include:
1. Borqs: A location based mapping platform company that develops and promotes mobile operating systems. They are also active members in the Google/Open Handset Alliance as well as the Symbian Foundation.
2. Cloudmade: Cloudmade allows people to create applications with map tiles, turn-by-turn navigation, and in-app advertising. About 16,000 developers use CloudMade to create applications.
3. Kaltura: Kaltura is an open source online video platform that is used by about 100,000 people and businesses. Intel is investing with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, Avalon Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
4. InVisage Technologies: InVisage is a company that develops commercial mobile technology materials for image sensors. The material captures light which allows handheld devices to take high-resolution images.
5. SecureKey Technologies: SecureKey is a company designs hardware and software encrypting debit, credit, and identity card data specifically for Near Field Communication phones.
6. VisionOSS Solutions: VisionOSS makes communications and collaboration software IP-PBX and UC&C architectures.
Wikipedia To Get Videos Via Kaltura
Kaltura, a streaming video web site that recently won the people’s choice awards at the Crunchies and the Open Web Awards, has partnered with the Wikimedia Foundation to add videos to various Wiki projects. The Wikimedia Foundation’s projects include Wikimedia.org, MediaWiki.org, Wikipedia.org, and Wikieducator [see comment]. I believe that this is a great value-add to the educational resources that Wikimedia Foundation provides.
The initiative is currently in Beta and Kaltura is building a larger user-base to contribute to making collaborative videos. Collaborative videos are videos that users can edit using Kaltura software to plug in videos, sounds, and photos that are relevant to the selected subject. These videos will also be embeddable within social network pages and blogs. For more information, check out: http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Main_Page.
Kaltura’s code will become open-source. Video and audio will be encoded in open source formats: OGG Vorbis and OGG Theora [source: Download Squad].
What are your thoughts on videos being embedded on Wikipedia? [comment here]
Categories Kaltura, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia
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