Reuters: Private Equity: SingTel close to Silicon Valley startup deal-source

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SingTel close to Silicon Valley startup deal-source May 8th 2012, 09:00 By Poornima Gupta Tue May 8, 2012 5:00am EDT May 8 (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd , Southeast Asia's largest telecoms company, is close to acquiring a Silicon Valley-based mobile advertising startup, a person familiar with the matter said. AdJitsu, which provides tools to make three-dimensional animated ads in mobile apps in iPhone and iPads, is in the process of being bought by SingTel's U.S.-based mobile advertising solutions subsidiary Amobee, this person said. Amobee, also based in Silicon Valley, was bought by SingTel in March for $321 million. AdJitsu is a unit of Palo Alto, California-based startup Cooliris, which has raised $28 million from big venture capital names such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures and The Westly Group. Cooliris could not be immediately reached for comment. The company started off as a service to view photo and video content on the Web in a more visually appealing "3D Wall" but branched out to start Adjitsu and a photo sharing app called Liveshare. Adjistu, which was spun off into a separate unit last December, has been seeing a lot of interest from both advertisers and ad networks, and growing at a rapid pace, the company had said last month. Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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