Scalado
| Private owned by Microsoft | |
| Industry | Imaging software Imaging technology Mobile imaging |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Fadi Abbas Pierre Elzouki Maziar Jahanshahi Sami Niemi |
| Headquarters | Lund, Sweden |
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Number of locations
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Sweden (HQ), Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore and United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Website | http://www.scalado.com |
Scalado is a provider of imaging technologies, applications and engineering services for the camera (phone) industry. The company is a Swedish imaging software company that focuses on the wireless device industry. Scalado's CAPS is embedded in more than a billion cellphone camera devices. Scalado was acquired by Nokia in 2012.
Scalado was founded in 2000 at Ideon Science Park in Lund, Sweden by former students from Lund's University, Sami Niemi, Fadi Abbas,Hadi Abbas,Maziar Jahanshahi and Pierre Elzouki (active until 2004). Scalado employs imaging specialists worldwide and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden. The company has offices in Sweden (HQ), Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the United States.
In 2010 Scalado technology was embedded in more than 930 millions devices with a predicted annual growth of 500 million devices per year. Examples of its technologies is Scalado RAJpeg, Scalado SpeedTags and Scalado SpeedView.
During Blackberry World 2012 in Florida, Research in Motion revealed a demo of its upcoming new mobile os, BlackBerry 10, incorporating Scalado's time warp feature.
Scalado's software offers products in capturing, viewing and editing images. Examples of some of the imaging products Scalado provides its customers with: Scalado CAPS, Scalado PhotoFlow, Scalado Rewind, Scalado TimeWarp, Scalado Camera SDK, Scalado Album SDK, and Scalado Editor SDK. In 2012 Scalado also started producing mobile apps for the consumer market.
2003 - Scalado was awarded by the European Commission with the European IST prize, Information Society Technologies (today called ICT-prize) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Scalado was given the award for its first ever imaging software, Scalado ImageZoom™.
2005 - Scalado won the Series 60 Challenge Awards in the category “Best Media/Music product of the year” for the PhotoTwister™ Series 60 application.
2007 - Scalado was awarded with ALBIHNS prize of innovation for the AutoRama™ technology, a panoramic image application.
2008 - At the Mobile Gala known as the Swedish “Mobile Oscars” in Stockholm, Sweden, Scalado won the category for “Company of the year”.
2009 - On Deloitte’s list of “Sweden Technology Fast 50” Scalado was ranked as number seven with a growth of 1559% during 2004-2008.
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