{"id":126,"date":"2014-06-27T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:38:23","slug":"techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/2014\/06\/27\/techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"TwitCasting featured on TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Japan\u2019s Moi Corporation Raises $5M For Mobile Live Streaming App TwitCasting<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8-2014-06-27-20.37.29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8-2014-06-27-20.37.29-300x178.png\" alt=\"\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8 2014-06-27 20.37.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8-2014-06-27-20.37.29-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8-2014-06-27-20.37.29-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8-2014-06-27-20.37.29.png 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMoi Corporation, which is the company behind Japanese mobile live stream app TwitCasting, just raised $5 million to extend its reach outside of its home market and to grow around the world. The company raised that funding from Indonesia\u2019s Sinar Mas Group leading and Japanese seed investor East Ventures also participating.<\/p>\n<p>TwitCasting actually has two different apps \u2014 one for broadcast and one for viewing \u2014 and allows both broadcasters and viewers alike to chat with one another. While it was originally built in 2010, the app has been gathering momentum over time: it took two years to reach its first million users, but it has grown to 6.5 million users over the last year or so.<\/p>\n<p>The key to its growth, according to founder and CEO Yosuke Akamatsu, is a live-streaming technology that allows for quick and easy broadcasting, regardless of network connectivity. The stream adjusts for changes in network quality, allowing users to broadcast even when there\u2019s not a ton of bandwidth.<br \/>\n<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p><A Href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/06\/26\/twitcasting\/\" Target=\"_blank\">Japan\u2019s Moi Corporation Raises $5M For Mobile Live Streaming App TwitCasting<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Moi Corporation Raises $5M For Mobile Live Streaming App TwitCasting Moi Corporation, which is the company behind Japanese mobile live stream app TwitCasting, just raised $5 million to extend its reach outside of its home market and to grow around the world. The company raised that funding from Indonesia\u2019s Sinar Mas Group leading and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/about.moi.st\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}