served worldwide employees 15 1 slogan s live from your mobile website bambuser.com type of site social networking registration required for broadcasting not required for viewing available in english launched 2007 current status active bambuser is a swedish company founded in 2007 2 providing a platform for interactive live video broadcasting for streaming live video from mobile phones and webcams to the internet . bambuser s main office is situated in stockholm sweden and has a branch office in turku finland . the turku office works with technology and development while the swedish office concentrates on business development and marketing . contents 1 the service 2 media coverage 3 presence in the middle east 4 partnership with the associated press 5 references 6 external links the service edit bambuser the service is an interactive mobile video streaming platform that enables users to effortlessly stream and share live video using a smartphone or a computer equipped with a webcam . in addition to being accessible on the bambuser website broadcasts can be shared on various social media websites such as facebook twitter tumblr and blogger . the bambuser broadcasting mobile phone application is currently available for ios android nokia maemo symbian bada and windows mobile platforms . 3 bambuser is free to use for private persons and representatives of charities . commercial use is allowed but requires purchase of a premium subscription . media coverage edit in 2010 finnish broadcasting channel yle adopted bambuser as an alternative platform for their online and news broadcasts . this allowed yle to get more live coverage on their webpage and allowed the viewers to interact with the reporters on the scene . 4 in november 2010 bambuser was one of the finalists in the europas the european startup awards . 33 126 votes were cast across 23 categories and eight judges deliberated over the results . 5 on january 1 2011 the swedish pirate party celebrated its five year anniversary with a bambuser live broadcast with party leader rick falkvinge and vice party leader anna troberg . live in the video falkvinge sent a tweet saying he stepped down as party leader and he announced that his successor would be troberg . 6 presence in the middle east edit during the demonstrations in egypt bambuser along with microblogging site twitter was blocked by the government . 7 8 shortly thereafter most of the country s internet traffic was restricted . during this blackout bambuser set up a special egypt page on their website collecting all the streams originating from egypt and the protests on tahrir square . this page later evolved into the north africa middle east page . during the protests in bahrain a similar situation emerged as government officials blocked access to the bambuser homepage . 9 in the syrian civil war bambuser has been used to a great extent by citizen journalists in an effort to document and raise awareness of the events taking place inside the country . 10 on 17 february 2012 syria was reported to have blocked access to the bambuser website . 11 during the gezi protests in turkey citizens started broadcasting the police violence and oppression of the akp regime with the bambuser app . as a response the prime ministry banned bambuser in turkey illegally without a court decision . the ban was still ongoing as 4 april 2014 . partnership with the associated press edit since the partnership was announced in april 2012 users of the bambuser service have had the option to share their broadcasts with the ap . 12 the partnership enables the ap to use bambuser as a source for user generated content coming from citizen journalists . in addition to sharing the actual content users are required to disclose some form of contact information which enables the ap to verify the authenticity of the broadcast material and properly credit the author . on june 20 2013 the partnership between the two companies was extended when the ap announced their purchase of a minority stake in bambuser . 13 references edit about us crunchbase entry about bambuser bambuser.com s list of compatible phones dagens media bambuser i finsk aff r techcrunch the european startup awards 2010 the swedish pirate party history and foundation bambuser blocked in egypt . radio sweden . january 26 2011 . butcher mike january 26 2011 . now bambuser live streaming mobile video of protests is blocked by egypt . techcrunch . preston jennifer february 18 2011 . cellphones become the world s eyes and ears on protests . the new york times . shanley mia october 2 2012 . live from syria swedish streaming site gains followers . reuters . devereaux ryan february 17 2012 . syrian government blocks live video streaming site bambuser . the guardian . sawers paul april 4 2012 . associated press partners with bambuser to bring citizen journalists videos to the masses . the next web . retrieved august 2 2013 . ap buys stake in bambuser strengthens live ugc video capability . associated press . june 20 2013 . retrieved august 2 2013 . external links edit bambuser website bambuser blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bambuser & oldid 711781604 categories companies based in stockholmswedish companies established in 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 24 march 2016 at 21 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by 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