Near

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Near (company)

Near is a privately held location intelligence platform founded in Nov 2012 having direct presence in Australia, Japan, South East Asia, India, Europe, and USA. Near is headquartered in Singapore.

History

Near was founded as AdNear in Bangalore by Anil Mathews, who served as the CEO of the company. Instead of GPS, the platform used data from mobile towers and wifi networks to determine a person’s location, though it later added GPS to the location data as well. The Near platform utilizing this data was launched in November 2012. In 2013, the company moved its headquarters from Bangalore to Singapore. The company has received funding from venture capital firms Sequoia Capital,JP Morgan Private Equity Group,Telstra Ventures and Global Brain Corporation. It raised $6.5 million in Series A funding, and the $19 million raised in its 2014 Series B fundraising was the most raised by any company that year. In 2015, the company changed its name from AdNear to Near.

Platform

As of February 2014, the platform had about 100 million profiled users taken from forty thousand or so mobile apps into which Near has been integrated, by summer 2014 250 million users had been profiled, and by October 500 million had been profiled. By the summer of 2015, they had profiled about 700 million users. Platforms users have included seven of the eleven largest automobile companies began using the platform, as well as additional Fortune 100 companies.

Near (Death Note)

Nate River (Japanese: ネイト・リバー, Hepburn: Neito Ribā), universally referred to by the mononym Near (ニア, Nia), is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Near is the younger of the two successors of L who was investigating the methods of identifying Kira, the in-universe name given to the mysterious serial killer who murdered criminals by means of the eponymous Death Note. He becomes the leader of the SPK (Special Provision for Kira), an organization that looks into the Kira case, and in the end, succeeds in uncovering Kira's identity. He is voiced by Noriko Hidaka in the Japanese anime, and by Cathy Weseluck in the English version. In the Japanese TV Drama, he is portrayed by Mio Yūki.

Creation and conception

Tsugumi Ohba, writer of Death Note said that he introduced Near and Mello together as L individually could not defeat Kira. Ohba felt that introducing one character individually would produce a "repeat" of the struggle between Light and L, so he instead wanted a story involving three combatants fighting each other. Ohba said that he let Obata create the character designs and asked him to make both characters look "a little "L-ish"". Ohba said that he "wavered" in their ages and considered making the characters the sons of L. Ohba added that he did not initially develop their personalities as he wanted to "reveal" them through their actions.

Left

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Eric Roberson

Eric Roberson (September 25, 1976) is a singer, songwriter and producer from Rahway, New Jersey. He is sometimes referred to simply as Erro, the name which he later used as part of his label Blue Erro Soul. His first single, "The Moon", was released through Warner Bros. Records in 1994 and recorded an album for that label which remains unreleased.

He subsequently returned to Howard University to complete his studies in Musical Theatre. After performing in a number of musicals and plays, he landed a songwriting deal through the EMI label, and went on to collaborate with Philadelphia-based artists such as Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, and most extensively, DJ Jazzy Jeff.

As a member of Jeff's A Touch of Jazz production company, Roberson made contributions to Jeff's debut album, The Magnificent in 2002. He continued songwriting work as well as releasing his own material through his Blue Erro Soul imprint. He also appeared on DJ Spinna's Intergalactic Soul LP in 2006.

Roberson was nominated for two Grammys in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category. He was nominated for two songs from his 2009 album Music Fan First- "A Tale of Two" in 2010 and "Still" in the same category a year later.

Left (Hope of the States album)

Left is the second and final album by the band Hope of the States, released on June 19, 2006. It was released on CD, DualDisc CD/DVD, and as a limited edition double 10" vinyl. The album was preceded by two singles, the limited edition "Blood Meridian EP" and "Sing It Out", which reached #39 in the singles charts. The album itself reached #50 on the UK album charts on its initial release.

The album was described as slightly more accessible and guitar-oriented than were the tracks on Hope of the States's debut, The Lost Riots.

There followed a further single, the title track Left, which charted at #63 in August 2006, shortly before the band announced their split.

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