Yocoy Technologies GmbH
| URL | www.yocoy.com |
|---|---|
| Country | Germany |
| Founded at | 2007 |
| CEO | Feiyu Xu |
Understanding Everywhere
Yocoy Technologies GmbH was founded in June 2007 by Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit, Dr. Feiyu Xu, Sven Schmeier and DFKI GmbH as the 50th spin-off company of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The vision and ultimate goal of the founders of Yocoy is to develop software that enables people to overcome barriers between the most common languages in the world. This is pursued by developing applications for mobile devices which allow their users to literally carry a new language with them in their pocket all over the world. The current products are apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
There are four product lines developed till now:
1) yochina: They are a smart all-in-one travel, language and cultureguide for trips in China.
2) yochina Quiz: It provides tests of knowledge and intercultural competence of China.
3) i-You phrasebooks: They are handy language guide made for everyday communication.
4) Taxi-Books: They are handy guides to key locations in the city and a way to communicate with locals, in particular in China.
The soul of the young Berlin enterprise is an international team of highly skilled specialists thoroughly trained in mobile interfaces, crosslingual/crosscultural communication and tourism information systems.