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Mobile search is set to explode, so it doesn’t surprises to see Veveo raising the second round of $14 million earlier this year. Thus far, the mobile search company has raised a total of $28 million from Norwest Venture Partners, Matrix and North Bridge Venture Partners.
Veveo’s flagship product Vtap is a web video search solution, which aims to improve the mobile search experience by relying on the character-based incremental search technology where results are returned with every character entered. I’m not sure just how this kind of technology can be patented, as we already have Google Suggest working in the same manner. However, Vtap shoots for the niche market and guarantees to better structure mobile video search results, so that users find much faster what they’re looking for.
In order to push its technology, Veveo is in the midst of partnering with both handset manufacturers and carriers. Apparently, as we speak they are negotiating with Verizon, which could certainly use something like Vtap to further enhance and organize its mobile video offering.
Vtap is scheduled to launch on September 10, with initial release to support Windows Mobile smartphones and an Ajax version for the iPhone. Support for wide-array of devices with J2ME is also coming later in the fall. Stay tuned…
[Via: Mashable]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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