{"id":151020,"date":"2010-01-07T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-01-07:article\/419-3d-ui-specialist-rightware-raises-4.3-million"},"modified":"2010-01-07T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T23:58:44","slug":"3d-ui-specialist-rightware-raises-4-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151020","title":{"rendered":"3D UI Specialist Rightware Raises $4.3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-3d-ui-specialist-rightware-raises-4.3-million\/\" title=\"Rightware Logo\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"78336_4536\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/rightware-logo-s.png\" alt=\"Rightware Logo\" width=\"170\" height=\"46\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightware.com\" title=\"Rightware\">Rightware<\/a>, a Finland-based developer of user interfaces for mobiles and mobile applications, has closed a $4.3 million (\u20ac3 million) round of funding from Finnish VC firms <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~r\/moconews\/~3\/voXpmEHcjTc\/www.nexitventures.com\" title=\"Nexit Ventures Oy\">Nexit Ventures Oy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventure.fi\/\" title=\"Inventure Oy\">Inventure Oy<\/a>. The company has also acquired the Mobile and Embedded business unit from Futuremark, from which it was spun off only last month, for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Rightware develops and markets a 3D graphical UI solution called Kanzi, which it sells into both the mobile and automotive industries. 3D user interfaces have become a standard, and very central, feature in touch-screen handsets. Rightware&#8217;s customers include Texas Instruments, Imagination Technologies, China Mobile and Audi. The UK chip maker Imagination counts Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=AAPL\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"AAPL\">NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) and Intel (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=INTC\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"INTC\">NSDQ: INTC<\/a>) among its customers and investors.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rightware&#8217;s purchase of Futuremark&#8217;s mobile and embedded business division includes all of the unit&#8217;s intellectual property rights, assets and liabilities. Some of the platforms currently using the technology include Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, Linux and mobile Java. 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The company has also acquired the Mobile and Embedded business unit from Futuremark, from which it was spun off only last month, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}