Good Technology has acquired Intercasting, a mobile social networking connectivity company based out of San Diego, CA, for an undisclosed sum. Good, which markets a number of mobility solutions primarily geared towards businesses, is looking to broaden its customer base beyond smartphone users and picks up Intercasting to expand its product line aimed at end consumers.
Intercasting Corporation is mostly known for its ANTHEM technology platform, which spans an entire communication ecosystem comprised of social networks, email services, IM providers, content owners, application developers, wireless carriers and device manufacturers.
According to Intercasting, carriers currently using the ANTHEM platform include 3, Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA, and many more. Intercasting is also the company behind Rabble, a mobile blogging and social networking application.
Intercasting was founded in 2004 and had raised a total of $17.5 million in capital to date from investors such as Venrock, Avalon Ventures and Masthead Venture Partners. All of its 25 employees will join Good Technology, which is the combined entity formed by the former Motorola company with the same name and one of its rivals, mobile messaging company Visto, which took it off Motorola’s hands now nearly 3 months ago.
Intercasting is an interesting company their “Rabble” site looks kind of creepy and doesn’t make anyone feel like they want to sign up. It just isn’t an inviting site – however ANTHEM isn’t a bad platform.
I’ve always questioned companies that are geared toards business buying something that doesn’t seem to fit with them. I think Good in this case wants to buy their connections as much as their tech (and of course the tech is great, but the connections are better.)
yeah thatz true their site looks creepy to me
same here
Congrats to the Intercasting team and way to go San Diego!
Intercasting has been and still is our competitor and seeing this makes me say: respect guys. In a climate like this, this is fantastic. Hats off.
Get someone with half a skill set to do the next interview, sorry but Arrington is starting to sound like a TMZ cameraman asking questions…seriously!
Sounds good to me. Let’s get this xXx $ gUaP $ xXx
“Social Communication Enabler Intercasting”???
… Clearly we’ve gone too far. Everyone step away from your computers.
14 Million dollar deal
ANTHEM belongs to Intercasting ??? ummmm