They are, in alphabetical order:
- Box of Los Altos, California, a content-sharing platform for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and the web, with 11 million users and 125,000 businesses;
- FocalTech of Hsinchu, Taiwan, an integrated circuit design house specializing in touch panel controllers (investment still subject to closing);
- Hungama of Mumbai, India, which self-identifies as that country’s leading on-demand digital-entertainment company, with 20 million users accessing over 5,000 Bollywood, Hollywood, and other content from TVs, PCs, and mobile devices;
- Jelli of San Mateo, California, a “social radio platform” for iOS, Android, and the web, which provides ad serving and what it calls “unique insights for advertisers;”
- LIFO Interactive of Seoul, Korea, a social game developer whose Train City had 8 million Facebook users last year, and who has games in development for iOS, Android, and Windows 8;
- NewAer of Los Angeles, California, which uses Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC technology to automate location-based app actions such as, for example, dropping a map pin on an Android map app when you park your car;
- PagPop of São Paulo, Brazil, a secure online-payment platform operator that works with landline phones, smartphones, feature phones, and PCs;
- Tier 3 of Bellevue, Washington, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider;
- Transmension of Shanghai, China, a gaming-service provider that delivers content to TVs via IPTV and cable to “millions of families;” and
- UUCun, also of Shanghai, China, a mobile internet ad platform installed in 20 million smartphones just this year, which is expanding into mobile payments and mobile gaming.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/02/intel_capital_investments/
