SnapMyLife captures $5M for mobile photo sharing
SnapMyLife, a web site for sharing photos over cellular phones worldwide, reeled in $5 million in financing to roll out new product features and stretch its global reach. Owned by mobile content distributor Mobicious, the Needham, Mass. company hopes to capitalize on the popularity of photos on social-networking sites to bring in revenue from relevant ads.
The application’s users can not only make friends and share their photos (taken on their phone or by a digital… Continue Reading
Congrats to the winners of the MobileBeat Tesla Award: Loopt, AdMob and more
Updated
Well, it’s all over but the drinking. Our panel of experts has selected the best companies presenting at MobileBeat 2008 today in Sunnyvale. Since we didn’t know the winners ahead of time, the Tesla Awards (pictured left, named for inventor Nikola Tesla) weren’t engraved yet, but the winning executives did get a warm handshake from Accenture’s Lars Kamp, who presented the awards.
Here are the winners:
Crowd favorite (the favorite company, selected by MobileBeat attendees): AdMob, a leading… Continue Reading