NEAR or Near may refer to:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've been watching you from the corner of my eye
I can't stand it, be too close, can't stand it
Be too far and I can't say why, yeah
And as the shadow fades
Where you walk away
My secret's written all across my face
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, tonight
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, ohh
Oh, I've been watching you from the corner of the sea
You are silent
Eyes of eyes
You are silent
Hands of hands
And I want them both on me
But in the quiet strain
The mention of your name
And I'm running from you
And running to you all the same
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, tonight
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, oh tonight
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight
Round and round we go
The shadows dance by so slow
But only for me to know
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, oh tonight
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight, oh tonight
I only want you near me
I only want you near me
Tonight
Hey yeah
I only want you near me