Samsung acquires second-screen app developer Movl

News Broadband Global 7 MAY 2013
Samsung acquires second-screen app developer Movl
Samsung has acquired the start-up Movl to help develop second-screen apps. MOVL is the maker of the Kontrol.tv API platform, which lets developers create apps to connect TVs via the cloud, as well as mobile phones on home networks. The platform was fully launched last fall, after a year and a half of development. A representative from MOVL confirmed to TechCrunch that the company joined Samsung in April. The startup was one of the first winners of Samsung's Connected TV developer contests, with its WeDraw app, which enables users to draw images through an app on their mobile phones or tablets, and have those illustrations be displayed on a Samsung TV. Its Kontrol.tv interface works with both Samsung and Google TV devices, as well as iOS and Android phones and tablets.

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