装备数字 Acquires Kyte, KickApps, 和Kewego for $77.200万年
装备数字 continues its rapid acquisitions with an announcement this morning that it's picking up Kyte, KickApps, 和Kewego. KickApps CEO Alex Blum has been appointed to the new position of chief operating officer at 装备数字.
总部设在布拉格, 装备数字 provides cloud-based video asset management solutions for multi-screen delivery. 通过这三项收购, it hopes to increase both the technological and geographic scope of its operations, while also enhancing its social media integration. The combined value of all three deals is roughly $77.200万美元.
1月25日， 装备数字 completed the acquisition of privately-owned Kyte, the online video platform based in San Francisco, which helps companies deliver live and on-demand video. Kyte made a name for itself as one of the early leaders in delivery to and from mobile devices. 这家公司以5美元的价格出售.700万美元，其中包括3美元.100万现金和2美元.600万美元的装备数字股票.
“KIT digital的全球影响力, 强烈的创业精神, and commitment to innovation made this merger clearly superior to other strategic opportunities. KIT digital's scale and expertise makes it possible for Kyte to realize the full potential of its pioneering innovations in online and mobile video, including new opportunities in the over-the-top (OTT) connected device and enterprise video markets," says Kyte chief operating officer Gannon Hall. Hall will be relocating to KIT's Prague headquarters to take the title executive vice president of marketing.
Kyte为用户提供多媒体聊天功能, RSS, 推特, and Facebook notification services to keep on top of new content, as well as sharing and embedding tools.
"Kyte is recognized as having the most advanced mobile publishing technology in the marketplace, and has an aggressive and talented management team," says 装备数字 chairman and CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman. "We plan to leverage Kyte's proprietary platform and application frameworks to serve and expand KIT's global client base. The acquisition also adds a strong West Coast presence, which we will use as an R&D、业务发展枢纽."
装备数字 signed an agreement to acquire KickApps on January 28. KickApps is based in New York City and offers a suite of hosted social media apps for engaging online audiences. KickApps的售价为44美元.7 million, all of which was in 装备数字 stock.
"KickApps’ innovative and proprietary suite of social media applications are a perfect strategic fit for us, adding powerful social tools and player authoring capabilities to our software platform solutions," says 装备数字 president Gavin Campion.
The deal brings with it KickApps' Open Source Media Framework app studio, a web-based authoring solution which KIT clients can now use to deliver customized Flash and HTML5 deployments.
Finally, 装备数字 finished the acquisition of Kewego on January 26. Kewego is based in Paris and offers enterprises and media companies multi-screen video asset management solutions. Customers can use them to manage, broadcast, and monetize videos on IP-connected devices. Kewego的售价为26美元.700万美元，其中11美元.7 million was in cash and $1500万年 in 装备数字 stock.
The deal strengthens 装备数字's market share in Western Europe. It also enhances KIT Digita's digital signage offerings.
装备了 兆赫广播系统有限公司. 和Accela通信 2010年9月，以及 广播媒体 2010年3月. The company has made more than ten acquisitions in the past two years, including Nunet and The Feedroom in 2009, and made a public offering in December 2010 that netted $102.500万年.
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