Press coverage of our round B financing news
July 11, 2008
Steek raises €5 Millions in second round of Financing
July 1, 2008
The second round co-led by Innovacom with new investments from AGF Private Equity.
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SteekR V2 today!
April 28, 2008
We will upgrade our service today: SteekR will move to a new version V2 one year after its launch.
This new version will provide you a new richer interface with more features:
- Access up to 50 files per page
- Sent and received shares are split into 2 different tabs
- File selection process is optimised and more efficient
and also provides you new features like:
- New multimedia player
- More sharing and publishing options
- Create your own widget and publish your content on your personal page.
Due to this version upgrade, access to your SteekR service may be temporarily affected today.
The Steek team thanks you for your understanding.
New assistance area for SteekR
April 21, 2008
Steek has just release a new assistance area for SteekR product.
This area can be accessed from the following url: http://help.steekr.com.
At Steek, we have developped this area because we understand that online storage is a great tool but not always easy to use. Make things and usages basic and easy is our main target and we focus everyday to make our products easy and fun to use. But as always with new services or new users, we need to teach and show and explain. This new area is built for that: explain and show how to use SteekR.
That is why we have put there not only user guides and FAQ but also tutorial videos.
Have a look and have fun!
Steek becomes registrar with the .steek extension
April 1, 2008
Steek online storage will now benefit from an exclusive differentiation and explicit recognition: a .steek extension.
All the SteekR end users will be able to register a .steek domain. The .steek name must be between 3 and 63 characters and use letters from A to Z and numbers from 0 through 9. No spaces or special characters are permitted.
It’s estimated that a large part of the 1,2 million Steek accounts will use the service as an acronym for online storage. With the .steek name, individuals will publicize that they are sharing and streaming personnal data, allowing a variety of devices to become more effective internet tools, providing everybody with direct access to enhance tools like IPTV or mobile device as means of generating new contact and relationship.
“We are looking at the birth of the first truly storage oriented domain name” enthused Christophe Camborde, CEO of Steek, “From a business perspective, it makes the marketing of Web addresses more explicit and useful”.
Notes Christophe, “Even if a company or individual’s names are not trademarked, it still makes sense to try to control available urls. Acting now, while .steek domain names are still readily available, is a good way of maintaining future access, as the sharing and streaming usage is booming!”
The first domain name created is http://www.fanta.steek , fantastic no?
About Steek :
Steek is one of the leading suppliers of online storage services for the consumer market. Steek allows Internet Service Providers, security software publishers and producers of storage peripherals (USB keys, hard disks, etc…), to quickly develop services which deliver real added value to their customers. With an installed base of more than one million users, the unique experience of Steek provides evidence of the increased loyalty and improvement in ARPU which its solutions deliver.
Steek has alliances and partnerships with Internet Service Providers, VARs, Portals and mass market solution providers spanning 12 countries on three continents.
Steek is headquartered in Bordeaux Bruges (33). The main sales office is located in Paris and the Company also operates sales offices in London, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Corporate website : www.steek.com
Blog : blog.steek.com
Forum : forum.steek.com
Press contact - www.myntic-pr.com / www.prminds.com
Steek and logos are registered and protected trademarks of Agematis SA.
Digital Content Observatory by Steek
March 19, 2008
Steek online storage specialist manages data of more than 1 Million users.
These data are stored anonymously but also in an intelligent way allowing Steek to store also additionnal informations (”tag”) about these files.
Useful informations can be extracted from this and thus Steek has decided to publish regularly an observatory of digital content.
The first edition of this observatory is dedicated to digital picture.
On more than 2 millions photos:
- 2% are without date stamp;
- 0,5% are shooted in the futur (up to 2756!);
- 97,5% of the photos seems to have a reasonnable date stamp.
Concerning the camera provider, here are our ranking:
- Canon 23%
- Sony 14%
- Nikon 9%
- Olymus 8%
- Fujifilm 7,5%
- Panasonic 6,5%
First gsm-photo camera provider: Sony Ericsson
Concerning the camera ranking:
- Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
- Olympus E-500
- Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
- FinePix A205S
- FinePix4700 ZOOM
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T9
- Nikon Coolpix E5700
- Panasonic DMC-FX10
- Canon PowerShot A80
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P92
that only count for 15% of the total used cameras.
It just shows that there are a lot of models in the market and maybe the TOP10 models are not the best sellers but rather the more used (as they rather target experienced users).
Concerning the pictures definition:
- 36% of the photos have a definition lower than 2 millions pixels;
- 17% of the photos have a definition between 2 and 5 millions pixels;
- 47% of the photos have a definition bigger than 5 millions pixels.
Conclusion: today we use mostly recent cameras with the largest defintion available…
Steek to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of users
December 12, 2007
Paris, 12 December 2007 - Press releaseSteek to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of users.
Steek, provider of online data storage and sharing solutions , and Netvibes, pioneer of the personalized banner page, have combined their expertise to offer the users of Netvibes an online file storage and sharing service. Fully integrated in the new version of the Netvibes site, the service will be available on the personalized pages of Netvibes users as well as in Netvibes universes.
The service will be previewed for the first time on December 12th during the Paris leweb3 conference sponsored by the two companies.
The upgrade of the 30 million personalized pages created with Netvibes across more than 150 countries will happen over the next coming weeks
Thanks to this service, completely based on the Steek technology, each user of the Netvibes community will have access to a 2GB storage space that will be extendable upon request. Developed to meet mass market needs, the Steek offer is already used by more than a 1 million users and offers the most advanced set of features as well as very powerful integration possibilities via its “extended API set”.
Very simple to use, Steek services do not require any particular knowledge to be enjoyed. Thanks to its intuitive Web 2.0 interface and the many user-friendly features, uploading, playing and sharing files on line between members of a community has never been so easy. Within the Netvibes environment, the service will make it possible for everyone to play his/her music, to look at his/her movies or to create a slideshow of his/her photographs without having to download anything on his/her computer.
This unprecedented announcement is driven by the constant evolution of the way the Net is used, and the growing demands by today’s Net surfers for mobility and ubiquitous access, in particular the need for safe, distributed and easy access to online data. The partnership between Netvibes and Steek is also explained by the 100 % web 2.0 orientation of both companies and their ability to guarantee a reliable and innovative global service for demanding users.
The selection of the Steek offer by Netvibes after a thorough international invitation to tender process confirms the market leading position of Steek whose technologies are already widely deployed by leading players on the worldwide web . This news illustrates the ability of Agematis to develop services on an international level and to evolve its offer to respond to the demands of the professionals of Web 2.0
Christophe Camborde, CEO of Steek: “We are proud and happy to provide the complete solution for Netvibes, a leading site on the world Web. We carried out a very advanced integration so that the Netvibes users can access their data on their personal Netvibes pages and also, in the very next version, through universes. Tariq’s teams are excellent and we hope to be able to quickly add new functionalities to the service soon. The development of Web 2.0 is heading towards social networks and at the heart of social exchange is personal data. Together our technologies bring the possibility of offering them to the greatest number”.
Tariq Krim, CEO of Netvibes: ” From day one, we appreciated the technology and flexibility of Steek. The Netvibes drive has to be fully integrated and perfectly serving our members, for this Steek is the perfect partner.”
About Steek :
Steek is one of the leading suppliers of online storage services for the consumer market. Steek allows Internet Service Providers, security software publishers and producers of storage peripherals (USB keys, hard disks, etc…), to quickly develop services which deliver real added value to their customers. With an installed base of more than one million users, the unique experience of Steek provides evidence of the increased loyalty and improvement in ARPU which its solutions deliver.
Steek has alliances and partnerships with Internet Service Providers, VARs, Portals and mass market solution providers spanning 12 countries on three continents.
Steek is headquartered in Bordeaux Bruges (33). The main sales office is located in Paris and the Company also operates sales offices in London, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Corporate website : www.steek.com
Blog : blog.steek.com
Forum : forum.steek.com
Press contact - www.myntic-pr.com / www.prminds.com
Steek and logos are registered and protected trademarks of Agematis SA.
About Netvibes :
Netvibes is a pioneer in the field of the personalized homepage, another and better way to access the Internet. With 25 Million users across 150 countries, Netvibes allows them to gather in one page their preferred websites, blogs, RSS feeds, emails accounts and also social networks, search engines, instant messaging, podcasts, widgets and all the services they like. Netvibes helps Internet users to organize their digital life with their buddies.
Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim, Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.
SteekUP and Kaspersky
October 18, 2007
PRESS RELEASE
Kaspersky Lab offers 2GB of online storage to buyers of version 7.0 of Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security.
Kaspersky Lab, the well known editor of computer protection solutions against all forms of cyber-malware (phishing, botnet, spam…) is partnering with Agematis and adds Steekup, the online most advanced online backup solution, to its new versions 7.0 of Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 bring a triple protection against known and unknown internet malware. They fight effectively against viruses, worms, trojan horses, spywares, keyloggers and rootkits. They are also an excellent defense aganist cyber-crimiminals trying to steal your private and confidential data.
SteekUP offers the online backup of data. Users can select the files they wish to protect, like Word documents, Excel sheets, Outlook email messages and address book, photos, music and video files and more. The files are then saved thanks to a set of unique features:
- Four levels of protection: authentication via X.509 certificate, data encryption in 3DES, secured transfers via SSL 128bits and data integrity checks upon reception.
- Automated, scheduled backups.
- Handling of multiple files with the same name.
- Advance filters for inclusion and exclusion of specific data (email messages and address book from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Eudora).
- Quick restoration at file and email level.
- Optimization and compression of the backup data flow.
By offering 2GB of free online storage with steekUP, Kaspersky Lab saves the data for all the user who already trust them.
SVM reviews SteekUP
September 19, 2007
The very popular and influential French IT magazine SVM reviewed steekUP in its October 2007 issue (N°263). SteekUp is the best in its class, with a rating 4.5 stars of 5.
Orb and Steek demonstrate “Orb Online”
August 31, 2007
To PC or not to PC - Users Decide When to Stream Media from the Internet
San Francisco (USA), Paris (France), [31/08/2007] Orb Networks, whose PC application lets users stream media from their PC to any other internet-connected device, today announced how, with Agematis, users could stream their content without using their PCs.
By integrating the Orb MyCast service with Steek, a network based solution from Agematis, the two companies highlighted the added insurance, convenience, transferability, and anytime access benefits of an internet-based Orb solution. Orb OnLine! extends the Orb media sharing architecture to the internet, providing users with the choice to stream their content via their computer, or from the internet.