Mogreet offers mobile video greetings from Fox Searchlight
Mogreet, a company that allows mobile phone users to send video messages just like texts, has sealed a deal with Fox Mobile Entertainment to use short video clips drawn from Fox Searchlight films like Juno and Napoleon Dynamite.
A “mogreet” (short for mobile greeting) is the equivalent of an animated e-card for your phone, a brief video followed by a customizable text message. Thanks to the alliance with Fox, you can now relive catch phrases like… Continue Reading
Mogreet rakes in $5M for mobile video messaging
Mogreet, developer of a platform that allows cell phone users to send videos to one another, announced today that it brought in $5 million in second-round funding. Its software compresses video files — up to 20-second clips — so that they can be sent through what is called MMS (multimedia message service — like SMS only for video instead of text messaging).
A “Mogreet” is shorthand for the type of video message the company distributes. The… Continue Reading
Mobile video messaging company MoGreet raises $2.5 million
Venice, Calif.-based MoGreet, a mobile video messaging company, has raised $2.5 million in a second round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier Fund. DFJ remains the sole investor, after a first round of $1.2 million. Users browse the video collection on MoGreet’s web site, and send “mogreets,” or 15 to 30 second mobile video messages, to a mobile phone for $.99.
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