Motorola Mobility seems to be snapping up startups in advance of its planned spin-off from parent company Motorola early next year. Today, it announced that ita4‚¬a4„s acquiring Zecter, which develops applications for storing your media online and streaming it to other devices.
The deal was first reported last night by TechCrunch, which said Motorola was a4‚¬Aclose to acquiringa4‚¬¯ the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. Today, Zecter published a blog post claiming the two companies share a vision to a4‚¬Acreate a seamless way for people to share content across multiple devices,a4‚¬¯ and that Zecter can better achieve that goal using a4‚¬AMotorolaa4‚¬a4„s brand and distribution.a4‚¬¯
Zecter said the Motorola acquisition wona4‚¬a4„t prevent the company from offering apps on non-Motorola platforms. It will continue development on ZumoDrive, which is a file storage and syncing service, for iOS (thata4‚¬a4„s iPhone and iPad), Android, and webOS devices. ZumoCast, a service for streaming media from your computer to other devices, will temporarily stop accepting new users.
Back in September, Motorola Mobility acquired location-based startup Aloqa.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zectera4‚¬a4„s investors include Ram Shriram, Tandem Entrepreneurs, VeriFone CEO Douglas Bergero, and incubator Y Combinator.
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