Skyfire raises $5M more for better mobile browsing
Skyfire, make web browsing on your mobile phone as fast and easy as it is on your desktop computer, has raised $5 million in new funding.
The Mountain View, Calif. company said it had more than 1 million users when it lest beta testing a few months ago. The browser’s main strength is its ability to load and help you navigate complex or media-heavy websites — like, say, social network Facebook. Skyfire recently announced a new… Continue Reading
Mobile browsing startup Skyfire gets new CEO from Travelocity
Skyfire, a company that brings a rich web browsing experience to smartphones, just announced a new chief executive — Jeffrey Glueck, who left his position as Travelocity’s chief marketing officer earlier this year.
Nitin Bhandari, who co-founded the Mountain View, Calif., company and served as its chief executive until now, will remain involved as Skyfire’s chief product officer. The company tells me Bhandari always planned to focus on product and hand the CEO role over to… Continue Reading
Rich mobile browser Skyfire launches faster version 1.0
Skyfire, a mobile browser that wants to bring the full desktop web experience to mobile phones, is taking its product out of beta testing today and launching version 1.0. Sometimes, that’s a signal that a service is ready for mass usage, but it looks like Skyfire is pretty big already, with more than a million users.
That one million user mark was one of the milestones that made chief executive Nitin Bhandari comfortable with taking the… Continue Reading
Skyfire integrates an activity stream with Twitter, Facebook and feed support
Skyfire, the mobile browser that touts itself as translating the desktop web browsing experience to mobile phones, has added a useful new feature today: Activity streams. The browser now has a default area that lets you pipe in articles from your favorite sites as well as friends’ activity from Facebook and Twitter.
This feature is part of the new Skyfire version 0.9 being launched just ahead of the Mobile World Congress taking place in Spain next… Continue Reading
Skyfire opens up its browser for a vastly improved web experience on Windows Mobile and Symbian devices
I’ve been spoiled by the iPhone. When I was using a Windows Mobile device today browsing the web with the mobile version of Internet Explorer, I was just about ready to throw the phone out the window. The experience was horrible. Then I opened the new version of Skyfire, version 0.8, which is being released today. Boy, what a difference a browser makes.
Skyfire is a third-party web browser made for Windows Mobile and more recently,… Continue Reading
Mobile browser Skyfire comes to Symbian devices. We have 100 private beta invites
The iPhone’s Safari web browser has ignited interest in browsing the “real web” on mobile devices, but it’s not the only mobile browser out there. Skyfire lets you see the web just as you would on your home computer but on a number of Windows Mobile-based devices. Today, it’s launching the beta version of its software for the Symbian platform as well.
Specifically, this version is built for the Symbian Series 60 (S60) platform, which is… Continue Reading
Skyfire nabs Mike Rowehl to handle scalability
Skyfire is a hot new mobile web browser that touts itself as “The PC web. On your phone.” It also touts itself as “real fast,” something which new team addition Mike Rowehl will have a hand in maintaining as the company’s scalability architect.
We last wrote about Rowehl two months ago when the mobile web browser Mowser, a company Rowehl co-founded and was chief executive of, was purchased by the Ireland-based consortium dotMobi. He stayed on… Continue Reading
Skyfire raises $13M to improve mobile web browsing
Skyfire has raised a $13 million second round of funding as it ramps up its campaign in the mobile browser wars.
The Mountain View, Calif. startup’s goal, says chief executive Nitin Bhandari, is to make a browser that makes the mobile web experience as close to the PC-browsing experience as possible, rather than settling for the simplified web presented on most mobile browsers like Opera Mini. Some of that comes down to the interface: Like the… Continue Reading