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Autodesk buys smartphone video app Socialcam for $60m

July 18, 2012

Software maker Autodesk has bought social-video service Socialcam for about $60 million to expand in consumer markets. Socialcam offers a smartphone application and Web-based service that lets users capture, edit and share videos.

The application, available at Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, has been downloaded more than 16 million times since it was introduced in 2011, Autodesk said today in a statement.
“Mobile computing, the cloud and social media are improving and changing the way people design, engineer and create projects,” Samir Hanna, vice president of Autodesk’s consumer group, said in the statement. “Video is an ideal medium for professionals and consumers alike to communicate and share their design ideas.”
Autodesk also builds software for smartphones and the iPad, such as its SketchBook app, which can create drawings and paintings on touch screens. The company’s customer base includes about 12 million professionals and 80 million consumers, Hanna said.
The company said in the statement that it will invest in scaling up the Socialcam platform and developing “a more comprehensive set of tools” for Socialcam users. It also plans to use San Francisco-based Socialcam to make its professional film and video technology more widely available to the consumer market.
“We want to bridge the gap between the professional creator and the amateur consumer,” Hanna said in an interview. “We want to give consumers access to build amazing products.” Hanna wouldn’t comment on how the acquisition will be financed.
The company said it signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition yesterday and expects to close the deal within 30 days.
Autodesk generated $2.22 billion in revenue in the fiscal year ended in January, up 14 percent from a year earlier. The shares rose 0.1 percent to $31.41 at 9:46 a.m. in New York. They’ve risen 3.5 percent this year through yesterday.
Following Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, all eyes have been on mobile video applications and their ability to help smartphone users capture short (read: viral) video clips and share them across the Web. In April, the service’s founders announced on Hacker news that it had attracted 4 million new users in one weekend, shortly after becoming the top free app on the App Store via a FreeAppADay promotion.

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