4INFO, and the story of how mobile is hot

November 13, 2005 | Matt Marshall

by Patrick Tehan

Here’s our Mercury News story (free registration) today about 4INFO, the Palo Alto mobile phone search engine company. It tells the story about how Pankaj Shah (left) raised his money.

The story is also part of the Venture Capital Survey carried in today’s Mercury News, which is about the bubbly portions of today’s internet industry. Besides the general area of “Web 2.0,” mobile is the other hot spot, as this story explains.

If you want more on tech trends in this sector, Russel Beattie is covering the mobile Web as closely — and entertainingly — as anyone. See this post of his for why he thinks the U.S. is about to see a revolution of sorts.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.