TVP Ventures today announced that they have partnered with ATDC member company Urban Planet Media & Entertainment, Corp. (Urban Planet Mobile), the premier provider of educational and informational content delivered via the mobile phone worldwide. TVP Ventures will play an active role in corporate development, strategic planning, capital formation and value creation for the entire organization.
“At TVP Ventures we partner with a select group of companies where we believe we have the opportunity to become big winners.” said Donald Gasgarth, Managing Director of TVP Ventures. “We are excited to partner with Urban Planet Mobile to assist in taking an immense worldwide mature market and introducing their top quality, original products that integrate with the mobile phone”.
Worldwide, economic growth and development are closely tied to improved education of the workforce, particularly when the population has cultivated English communication skills. In certain parts of Asia, for example, an individual can expect a 300% increase in his income by acquiring English proficiency. By developing deep libraries of educational and informational content built specifically for mobile delivery, Urban Planet Mobile is the only company to create patent pending mobile education products that are deliverable to up to 95% of handsets. With about 1.4 billion people worldwide actively learning English, there is a vast market for Urban Planet Mobile English language learning products alone.
In addition to the English language learning lines, Urban Planet Mobile offers test preparation products, including vocabulary building for the SAT, GRE, and TOEFL.
ATDC Member company Attrasoft recently launched its New Automatic Image Tagging Service using its proprietary software to automatically tag random images or videos. This is a new innovation which takes image tagging to the next level. Manual image tagging will become a thing of the past.
The problem today is that 95% of the Digital Universe is not searchable via keywords and the number of net images will double in three years and redouble in another three years, thus exacerbating the problem. Manual tagging is labor intensive, time consuming, and not scalable.
The advantages of Automatic Image Tagging Service are that it is fast, accurate, scalable, cost efficient, and it removes human error.
Please join us in welcoming Urban Planet Mobile to ATDC Savannah. Urban Planet Mobile provides education and information products created specifically for delivery via mobile phones. The initial product is “Urban English” with over 600 text and audio English language learning lessons in ten different languages, as well as daily vocabulary word builder programs for TOEFL, SAT, GRE, and specialized terminology such as nursing, medical, and pharmaceutical.
Urban Planet Mobile is primarily targeting Asia-Pacific, Middle East and South America markets which could generate well over 500 million users. Distribution contracts are currently in the works with carriers and content providers in these markets.
We are pleased to have Urban Planet Mobile to be part of ATDC and look forward to working with them.
Balaya is the newest ATDC member company located in Savannah, GA. The social media start-up develops social media tools that provide businesses with tangible results and a competitive advantage. By focusing on building community through content, customization and convenience, Balaya offers solutions to bring companies closer to their customers, employees and partners. Their tick-it prodcut works like a CNN news ticker aggregating a user’s most important online communication in one, easy to access location.
Check out their website for more information and cool facts like where the name Balaya came from:
Balaya comes from the savory dish known as jambalaya. You know the one, that rich and satisfying stew combining unique and fabulous ingredients. Each is great by itself, but together, as a group, well, they’re even more specatcular.
Join us in welcoming the Balaya team to ATDC!
