How WWDC 2013 set the stage for new user experiences
Guest Post For developers, this annual Mecca event sets the agenda for the next several months, and it’s safe to say we’ll all be busy again innovating for the Apple ecosystem.
Heroku developers get push messaging abilities with new Urban Airship app
April 24, 2013 6:00 AM
Sean Ludwig
Smartphone notification startup Urban Airship has launched a new app in the add-on marketplace of platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, a move to give PaaS developers better access to push messaging solutions.
More mobile leaders to join the VB Mobile Summit
We're only a few weeks away from our next Mobile Summit, and it's shaping up to be a memorable meeting. We've just added speakers from ESPN Mobile, Urban Airship, Pandora, Facebook, and more.
Urban Airship soars to another $25M in funding
February 6, 2013 7:21 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Urban Airship's shifting focus to brands is already winning over investors.
9 unusual, effective rules for successful meetings
Guest Post
I love Scott Kveton, the CEO of Urban Airship. He and his team are building an amazing company in Portland. If you do anything mobile-related and use push notifications of any sort, or real-time location targeting, you need to be talking to them. But …
Urban Airship nabs Tello for an early stake in Apple’s Passbook
December 4, 2012 6:15 AM
Devindra Hardawar
After building a significant business around making push messages easier to use, Urban Airship is now aiming to do the same with Apple's Passbook with the acquisition of Tello.
Anyone who has started, will start, or wants to start a startup MUST watch this video
October 17, 2012 12:53 PM
John Koetsier
If you could bottle the essential startup advice of some of the best founders and VCs in the world, what would it look like? Pretty much like this.
Push + place: Urban Airship unveils Location Messaging Service
September 30, 2012 9:00 PM
Devindra Hardawar
Urban Airship is adding location services on top of its popular push messaging.
Push.io opens its content-focused push notifications platform to all
July 11, 2012 3:16 PM
Devindra Hardawar
After spending three years in stealth mode bringing publishers to its push notifications platform, Push.io is emerging from the shadows today and announcing that it will open its push platform to any iOS app developer later this month.
The company …
Urban Airship partners with analytics service to cut down annoying in-game messaging
July 10, 2012 7:30 AM
Jeffrey Grubb
Urban Airship partners with GamesAnalytics to better target push notifications and in-game messaging. Apps will now be able to predict which users are likely to respond to prompts to spend money, and which users this will annoy.
Urban Airship has delivered 20B push notifications, doubling in just 4 months (exclusive)
May 9, 2012 5:49 PM
Sean Ludwig
Mobile marketing and messaging leader Urban Airship has served more than 20 billion push notifications through iOS, Android, and other platforms, the company revealed today.
Urban Airship currently is helping more than 65,000 companies — including ESPN, Groupon, and other …
10 disruptive individuals who are reshaping the mobile industry
March 21, 2012 7:31 AM
Dylan Tweney
The mobile industry is at an exciting stage: There are enough smartphone customers that there’s a huge field of opportunity for device makers, carriers, and app makers, but the market is still fragmented enough that no one company dominates. In …
How a few simple push notifications helped data shrinking app Onavo go viral
February 14, 2012 7:03 AM
Devindra Hardawar
One of the great things about Onavo, the hot mobile app that compresses your iPhone’s data, is that most of its magic happens in the background. But while that makes Onavo a breeze to use, it also makes it easy …
Urban Airship CEO demos Rich Push, a brand-friendly alternative to MMS (video)
November 15, 2011 4:02 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
Urban Airship, a platform-as-a-service company for mobile developers, has soft-launched a new MMS-style notification feature called “Rich Push” to help app makers better engage mobile users.
Co-founder and CEO Scott Kveton demoed the company’s newest feature for VentureBeat at the …
Urban Airship gets $15.1M from Salesforce and Verizon, thinking hardware
November 6, 2011 9:00 PM
Meghan Kelly
Urban Airship, a mobile development platform, announced a $15.1 million third round of funding led by strategic investors Salesforce.com and Verizon Wireless.
Mobile developers face a lot of challenges, but two main ones exist: getting people to download your application, …
Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo (confirmed)
October 31, 2011 3:02 PM
Jolie O'Dell
The rumors are true: Urban Airship has acquired SimpleGeo.
Both companies focus on developer’s tools for cutting-edge mobile technologies. SimpleGeo is a platform for location-based mobile apps, and Urban Airship powers all kinds of mobile tricks, including in-app purchasing, push …
Urban Airship, SimpleGeo partner for simpler, sexier mobile location data
July 28, 2011 8:03 AM
Jolie O'Dell
There’s got to be a better way to use location data for mobile technologies, and Urban Airship and SimpleGeo say they’re rolling it out this fall.
The two back-end-tech companies are partnering to bring better location and proximity data and …
