Logitech offers SightSpeed and its applications to video chat
Logitech wants to develop applications to support the marketing of its webcams. The manufacturer of accessories and peripherals has announced the acquisition of SightSpeed, a software video conferencing and video chat. Transaction Amount: $ 30 million.
Logitech will no longer be content to promote the use of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Skype with its webcams but will indeed take the opportunity to develop its own software solution, which will be multi-platform to work with Mac and Windows. Like SightSpeed.
The current solution, developed by the U.S. publisher, can hold video conferences with up to nine people in the version for businesses. Users can make calls from computer to computer or computer to phone, save, send and store e-mails video, etc..
Logitech’s ambition is to offer users an experience of video communications in excess of what we know about computers and to enter this mode of communication in daily users of the public.
