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Silicon Valley based Peel acquires Fission Labs R&D division
By ECONOMICTIMES.COM | Updated: Sep 24, 2015, 03.06 PM IST
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Days before the much-anticipated visit by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Silicon Valley to focus on supporting innovation & technology in India, Silicon Valley based Peel, a smart remote maker, has announced they are acquiring the Cloud R&D division of Hyderabad-based Fission Labs which will now become Peel India. With a three-year sales growth of
Alibaba-funded Peel ranked 287 among the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies this year.
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PEEL may have an announcement for CES, also they have been busy in BaRCELONA in yrs past.
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Peel Smart Remote App Revamp Showcases YouTube and India-Centric Content
Manish Singh, 18 December 2015
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Peel, a smart home control and television tune-in player, has redesigned its user interface with a recent update to add support for YouTube streaming channels. The redesign aims to make it easier for users to discover content right on the home screen. The app now taps on both TV listing of your local operator and streaming content libraries to show you results. Peel also plans to give recommendations on a user's past TV viewing behaviour.
Peel Smart Remote, which already supports a large pool of Indian set top box services including Airtel,Tata Sky, Dish TV, Hathway, and DEN, announced on Friday that it is adding more features aimed at Indian users. Starting with Peel v6.1 on Android (handsets that have an IR sensor), users will be able to find content from YouTube and keep up with their favourite channels. The integration now allows users to find Indian movies and TV shows available on YouTube.
The company also announced plans to launch 45 CatchUp TV series, which will be available in a number of Indian regional languages. The company told Gadgets 360 that it is currently negotiating with content players in the country.
Peel confirmed to us that iPhone users will not be able to utilise the new feature, as they are required to possess a separate device called Pronto, which isn't available in India yet. Peel plans to launch Pronto in the country in the coming months.
NOtice anything?
QUIK has added CyWee motion and PEEL has a focus on India. The stuff we have tightly integrated starts to make it easy to go Eos?
I wonder how many languages PEEL will start with? Its not so important as yhey will just expand from a core into the adjacent ones.
"Our goal has always been to make the experience of consuming video entertainment easier and more enjoyable," said Peel CEO and Co-Founder Thiru Arunachalam. "As more and more of our users diversify their entertainment consumption to include streamed content, it makes sense for us to simplify their journey to find something good to watch no matter what the source or destination is."
Peel currently has more than 135 million registered users and is actively partnering with Indian smartphone manufacturers and some that sell handsets here to preload its app on their devices. Some of these manufacturers include Karbonn Mobiles, Xolo, Gionee, Panasonic, and Celkon.
Smart Remote App Peel Technologies Expands in Asia
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Peel smart remote control application on select smartphones
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U.S.-based smart remote control application Peel Technologies is gearing up for global expansion after securing funding from Chinese Internet giant Alibaba.
The company, which raised $5 million from Alibaba in 2013 and closed a second round of funding of $50 million in June, has acquired a Shanghai-based rival Mozitek for an undisclosed sum to jump start its efforts in China, the country with over 1.2 billion mobile users.
The Peel smart remote control application, which can is installed on select smartphones, uses an infrared blaster in order to communicate with anything that uses a remote control including TVs, set top boxes and air conditioners.
Some hardware manufacturers integrate Peel’s infrared software in their phones, eliminating the need for certain chips to manage the infrared blaster, reducing costs, space required and energy usage, according to Thiru Arunachalam, a former product manager at Apple who co-founded Peel in 2009.
The Peel smart remote control, which has over 118 million active users, is also expanding its presencein India by forming partnerships with local phone makers including Spice,Celkon and Lava Xolo.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Peel Co-founder and CEO Arunachalam discusses the company’s strategy and expansion plans. Edited excerpts:
WSJD: What is your approach to the China’s market?
Arunachalam: Peel has always been a global first, mobile first company. China was always considered as one of the important global markets for us to conquer because it has a large and growing consumer base for smartphones and there are so many fast-growing Chinese smartphone vendors with global aspirations. We studied what Google did in China before entering the market. Some foreign companies actually tried to take their products and force theminto China. But Peel has adopted a local strategy. We are different from Google who sent their U.S. engineers to China. We acquired a local smart remote control company, Mozitek, to take advantage of the company’s localized products and existing sales relationships with Chinese hardware makers. Mozitek’s CEO has become Peel’s head of sales for China. I want the local team to operate independently with its own line of Chinese products and clients.We also have teamed up with Chinese hardware makers ZTE and TCL as they know the local consumer behavior.
WSJD: What are your growth targets for China’s market?
Arunachalam: We are now focusing on growing our users in China first before thinking of making money. In the U.S. market, we only started monetizing our application in the fourth-year of operation. We will continue to beef up our team in China and we aim to have 100 million users in the country by 2016. U.S. is a small country compared to China and Latin America. Currently, 35% of our users are from North America, 30% are from Asia and 25% come from Europe.I expect our user distribution will change as China’s market will continue to grow. China is great for us as many Chinese hardware makers also manufacture devices for India, another important market in Asia.
WSJD: How would Alibaba help Peel’s expansion in China?
Arunachalam: Alibaba is currently helping with strategic advice regarding developing relationships with Chinese hardware manufacturers, distribution partners and local acquisitions, as well as assisting with introduction to potential business development and marketing partners. To date, Alibaba has taken a relatively hands-off approach to its investment, encouraging Peel to focus on consumer experience and rapid growth rather than revenue.
WSJD: Would Alibaba’s investment affect your potential cooperation with other major Chinese Internet companies?
Arunachalam: Commercial cooperation is not a problem. There is no reason that we cannot work with Tencent and other Chinese Internet companies. In fact, we are working with Chinese search engine Baidu to promote our customized shareable URL links that let users tune in directly to TV shows. Peel will also partner with China’s Twitter-like social platform Sina Weibo to reach more users in the country.
WSJD: Is Peel in talks or looking to acquire more technology companies in China and Asia?
Arunachalam : Yes, we are keeping an eye out for potential synergistic companies to acquire. Peel currently has sales offices in both South Korea and India.
WSJD: What do you think of competition with other smart remote control applications?
Arunachalam: We know the customers and we already have millions of users. I doubt if other rivals can catch up as we have scale. We also have patents to protect our technology
The Adjacent Possible starts to show with every one of these software deals we read of.
You should be happy about the China/India adjacent possible.
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PEEL owns this CHina co.
Company Overview of MOZITEK Inc.
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MOZITEK Inc. operates a multi screen platform that offers an electronic program guide (EPG) data center and data services to its users. The company is based in Shanghai, China. As of June 12, 2014, MOZITEK Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Peel, Inc.
Get used to this... PEEL has IoT ambitions, they have been a China a nice amount of time and know some very HUIGE names there. TENCENT has 750 million immersed users.
China doesn't want the touch screen for input.
Also, I got to REACTIVATE this folder, all that work we did was it really a waste of resources or will it b worth it.......
consider that it was not wasted at all. We will get to use that effort and add to it when we read about the new way the app works.
I really like the CHina angle as you add CyWee into the mix......
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