Moonstorm offers coupons via cellphone

December 30, 2005 | Matt Marshall
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Cellfire, a service run by Santa Clara’s Moonstorm, lets you download coupons to your phone.

So far, it has coupons for places like Boston Market, Hollywood Video and local pizza joints. This is getting close to an offering that has been obvious for so long: You’re walking along, and you go by a pizzeria, and the pizzeria pings you with a coupon. Cellfire doesn’t say anything about having location tracking technology, so we’re assuming it is passing on this. The service, via Cingular, does apparently use general regional information about the user in order to offer local coupons.

You may ask why you’d need yet another source of coupons. Presumably, it is so you can sign up for coupons from only those sources you want. The service stores them on the phone for you.

By the way, here’s a recent Forbes piece we found about one of the investors, Tae Hea Nahm, of Storm Ventures.

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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.

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