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Qik Lands $5.5 Million for Mobile Streaming Video

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 9, 2009 - 7:02am.

Redwood City, Calif. - Qik, the provider of a mobile video streaming service, announced on Thursday that it has raised $5.5 million in new venture capital, from Quest Venture Partners, CampVentures and individual investors.

Buzz Watch: Ashton Kutcher Thinks Ted Turner Should Come On His Web TV Show

Authored by Jay Baage on April 14, 2009 - 12:31pm.

Ashton Kutcher is a pretty cool guy. First he manages to get almost as many followers on Twitter as CNN (almost 900K). Then he challenges CNN to a race to see who can get to 1 million followers first. If he wins, he'll ""ding dong ditch" Ted Turner's house. Then, proving he's web-savvy, he uploads a video to his Qik page (embedded above), providing the following thought:
"It's just astonishing that one person can actually have as much of a voice online as an entire company on Twitter," Kutcher says while he is driving a car. "I just thought it was an amazing comment on the state of our media."
As he is on video, his PR agent calls and says that Larry King wants him to come on his show and talk about the Twitter challenge with Ted Turner. Aston's response? Why should he come on CNN's old-media show to talk about his success with new media and give them more viewers? Ted Turner should come on his Qik show instead.
"We'll post it on Twitter," Kutcher says of the potential Turner appearance on Qik. "We'll get Ted Turner to call in."

Qik Introduces Live Mobile Video Streaming on BlackBerry

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 27, 2008 - 11:31am.

Redwood City, Calif. - Shortly after announcing the release of a live mobile streaming application for the Apple iPhone, Qik on Monday introduced live streaming video support for Research In Motion's (NASD: RIMM) BlackBerry smartphones. Qik will initially support live video streaming on the BlackBerry Pearl and Bold models.

Buzz Watch: Kevin Rose Demos Qik for the iPhone

Authored by Jay Baage on October 21, 2008 - 9:12am.

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and Revision3, demos Qik live streaming video app for the iPhone on his blog (video embedded above). These new streaming services, including uStream, are very cool. Not long ago you needed a ton of equipment and a satellite-upload truck to achieve what you can basically do now with a cell phone and a Qik account. For free! But to put this in perspective, the promise of streaming video from mobile phones is nothing new. I remember video-calling being the much-hyped new "killer-app" for 3G-phones back in Europe many years ago. It flopped. The difference now is that the market is ready for these services and it’s about one-to-many and not one-to-one. The devices are also better, video-sharing websites widely used and the combination of video streaming and running a text-chat seem to be a winning combo.

Live Mobile Video Streamer Qik Gets Investment

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 26, 2008 - 6:59am.

Foster City, Calif. - Qik, the provider of a live mobile video streaming platform, announced on Tuesday that it has received a "significant investment" from Netscape veterans Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who will also join the company's board of advisors.

Flixwagon, Qik Developing Video Streaming from iPhone

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 12, 2008 - 12:39pm.

Los Angeles - Mobile video developers Flixwagon and Qik are separately working on applications that will stream video from an iPhone, according to various reports. Both solutions will use the iPhone's built-in camera, and both are currently available only for jailbroken iPhones. The applications currently support limited video quality, but allow users to post videos to various sites, including YouTube.

Qik Lands $3 Million for Live Mobile Video Streaming

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 11, 2008 - 7:30am.

San Mateo, Calif. - Qik, a platform for streaming live video via mobile phones, announced this week that it has raised a $3 million second round of venture capital financing.

Buzz Watch: Robert Scoble Is Cell Phone Video Blogging From Davos

Authored by Jay Baage on January 24, 2008 - 12:44pm.

The blogging community can take a cue from Robert Scoble's cell phone video blogging from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which is going on right now. It's pretty impressive - with a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming a bunch of video interviews for the whole world to see (and it's all up there to be shared virally). It is surely the first time that this exclusive forum for world leaders, economists, technology experts, scientists, and other deep thinkers, has been reported on this casually.