What Happened?
Culver City, CA-based Nantcell Appointed Patrick Shiong as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
NantMobile`s vision is to apply state-of-art sensory technologies to the mobile environment, to build a richer day-to-day experience for consumers. Our core platform, iD™, is a 360 degree next generation mobile marketing platform that provides a compelling experience for end users and drives revenue for partners. Our mobile, multi-sensory recognition technology enables consumers to browse the physical world, and iDentify sounds, objects and images, which in turn unlocks engaging or useful digital content. This allows consumers to discover, act and transact with their favorite brands, retail and media outlets like never before. Our innovative technology is protected by over 1000 claims in over 40 issued patents, and is the only comprehensive recognition platform of 2D images, 3D objects, TV content, music, speech, and QR/barcodes from any mobile computing device, capturing both time and location of activation in real-time.
About the Person
Patrick Soon-Shiong made his fortune buiding and then selling two successful drug companies for $8.5 billion. Now he's working to revolutionize patient care by bringing Big Data to medicine through new company: NantWorks. Its algorithms can analyze data contained in a human genome in 47 seconds; the company also has two cancer drugs in development. Soon-Shiong`s father was a village doctor in China; the family moved to South Africa during World War II. Soon-Shiong finished high school at 16 and became a surgeon by 23.
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