Skyfire raises $5M more for better mobile browsing

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… Continue Reading

Mobile browsing startup Skyfire gets new CEO from Travelocity

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… Continue Reading

Rich mobile browser Skyfire launches faster version 1.0

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… Continue Reading

Skyfire integrates an activity stream with Twitter, Facebook and feed support

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… Continue Reading

Skyfire opens up its browser for a vastly improved web experience on Windows Mobile and Symbian devices

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… Continue Reading

Mobile browser Skyfire comes to Symbian devices. We have 100 private beta invites

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… Continue Reading

Skyfire nabs Mike Rowehl to handle scalability

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… Continue Reading

Skyfire raises $13M to improve mobile web browsing

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… Continue Reading