SocialMedia, a San Francisco company that places ads on social networks and other areas where there’s a social component for advertisers to tap, has hired Savvian investment bank to raise what could be a $20 million second round, we’re hearing. I wrote about SocialMedia last month, and described the evolution of its offerings including [...]
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Our conference MobileBeat, to be held next Thursday, comes at a time of huge innovation and change in the mobile industry.
There’s no better namesake for our MobileBeat award — to be given to the best mobile companies during our conference — than Nikola Tesla, the great Serb who was the first to demonstrate wireless communication. [...]
Venture capital firms raised $9.1 billion from their investors in the second quarter of 2008, or 3 percent more than they did during the same period a year ago.
While the stock market has tanked, venture capital firms have been able to raise money in part because they invest for the long-term, and their investors may [...]
I’m pleased to announce the latest two panel additions to MobileBeat, our conference on mobile July 24.
They are Mike Baker, Nokia vice president and head of Nokia Interactive, and Rick Segal, partner at the Blackberry Partners Fund.
This rounds out our panels nicely. We now have the four major mobile platforms represented: the iPhone, Android, Nokia/Symbian [...]
Reader Mel Bass has cobbled together a combined Apple/AT&T store map. He says it’s still got some rough edges, and he’s still building it out, but good enough for those of you wanting help finding a store today to buy the iPhone — now that its second coming is upon us.
http://iphone.whereimat.com
Guardian News & Media, a private UK publisher, has acquired ContentNext, the publisher of PaidContent.org, the news site launched by Rafat Ali in 2002 that was an early example of a lone blogging effort that turned into a larger media company.
Ali told Reuters that ContentNext would continue to be run as a stand-alone business. Reports, [...]
I’m delighted to announce three more panelists for MobileBeat2008, our mobile conference scheduled for July 24.They are Jed Stremel, director of mobile at Facebook (pictured top left), Brandon Lucas, senior director of mobile business development (pictured middle) at MySpace, and Jason Devitt, chief executive of a new mobile start-up called Skydeck (bottom). They’ll be speaking [...]
MySpace, the big social network that is vying with Facebook for top-dog status globally, has released a mobile version of its site designed especially for the iPhone. MySpace has also released new statistics revealing explosive growth among mobile users: Page views of the company’s mobile site appear to have more than doubled between [...]
Tapulous, a new Silicon Valley startup, embodies the craze that’s going on right now around the iPhone.Tucked inside a ground-floor office on Hamilton Ave. in Palo Alto, Calif., a stone’s throw from social network comany Facebook, the company’s eight employees are feverishly building applications solely to work on the iPhone.Never mind that the Apple has [...]
I’m delighted to announce the results of our search for today’s hottest mobile technology companies — our MobileBeat Top 30.
We’ll be inviting each of these innovative companies to our one-day MobileBeat2008 conference on July 24.
The MobileBeat Top 30 is a special group, having survived some rigorous screening. For those of you who haven’t been following [...]
During the voting process for best mobile company (see our MobileBeat2008 voting page), we started to map the mobile landscape. Led by Matthaus Krzykowski, a consultant at HmmAha, and getting feedback from other experts, we’ve segmented the main mobile sectors. The diagrams below illustrate our conclusions. They highlight the significant trends. We also classify [...]
Advertising on mobile phones is a trying market. Americans have been slow to surf the mobile web, in large part because dominant carriers have made browsing the web so painful.
But one young company, Admob, is showing impressive results despite all this, according to interviews and an investigation into the overall ad market. Admob puts ad [...]
Voting for the best mobile companies has ended as of noon. We’ll be announcing more details about the winners after the holiday weekend.
Winners will be invited to MobileBeat, our conference on July 24 about the tectonic changes happening in the mobile industry.
Mippin, a mobile service which lets users more easily interact with content on mobile [...]
Nimbuzz, the mobile VoIP and IM startup based in the Netherlands that offers you the kitchen sink of services — all for free, except for data charges, of course — has raised $15 million more in a second round of financing led by Naspers/MIH.
Meanwhile, competitor Fring announced the first add-ons developed by Fring and thifd [...]
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OpenTable, the San Francisco company that lets you make online reservations at any of 8,500 restaurants, said it it is seating three million diners a month, which means it’s making some serious cash — in the multiple millions of dollars a month, based on back-of-the-envelope math.
The company also has released mobile version of its site [...]
The San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper with circulation in the south part of the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced nine more layoffs in the newsroom by the end of the week, and dozens in its other departments.
The newspaper’s execs cited the tough economic climate.
This continues a remarkable downward spiral for the Merc, the [...]
Earlybird tickets to MobileBeat, our conference focused on the tectonic changes happening in the mobile industry, are on sale until tomorrow — so move quickly.
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers shaping up. I expect the most valuable part will be the networking in the hallways between sessions. The mobile industry has long been fragmented: [...]
Microsoft, the software giant flush with billions of dollars in its warchest, has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset, we’ve learned.The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million. An announcement is expected next month. Powerset, of San Francisco, has developed a technology that attempts to understand the full [...]
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