With all the “recommendation” technology companies out there fighting for business, you’d think this is a tough market to be in.
By some counts, there are at least 50 to 100 active companies in this area.But some companies, including Strands, and apparently Baynote, say they are making revenue from their technology, though they won’t comment whether [...]
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What does a Facebook just for women look like? Well, if you look closely enough, women-focused media site Glam is is taking on more appearances of that — only without the user profile part.
Indeed, taking a leaf from the success of Facebook, Glam has just unveiled its own “platform” to allow developers to build [...]
Over the last five years, we’ve seen a staggering creation of wealth by two companies with mobile device strategies: Apple (which owns the iPod and iPhone) and RIM (which owns the blackberry).
Their success comes even as the major operators have stagnated — the big three have created almost no value at all.
Below is a chart [...]
We’ve added a special pre-event session to MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
This will be a free session for developers focused specifically on the trends we’re seeing on services platforms (Nokia’s OVI, for example) and operating systems (Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, etc.) and how they’re impacting developers writing mobile apps.
In addition, we’ve invited some operators to [...]
Venture capitalists invested $6.64 billion into U.S. companies in the second quarter, or 12 percent less compared to the same period last year, according to Dow Jones.
Another research group, led by PwC and NVCA, reported flat growth from last year, although a decline from the first quarter.
Dow Jones research on venture investments has generally been [...]
After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They are as follows:
Applications:
Kyte.tv — a live video company that lets you broadcast live video from a phone, [...]
I’m pleased to announce our esteemed panel of experts for MobileBeat.They’ll listen to the pitches from the MobileBeat presenting companies, and select the winners in various categories. We introduced the MobileBeat Tesla Award yesterday and explained the competition categories.The panelists are as follows:John Smelzer, FOX Interactive Media, SVP & General Manager — John Smelzer is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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