Final MobileBeat nominees: mBit, Gupshup, Vlingo, Yap, Greystripe, Soonr, BIM
The countdown to the MobileBeat2008 conference continues.
Today we’re adding seven more companies to the list of nominees for best mobile company, or the one with the biggest, baddest idea and that has a decent chance at being a business hit. The top 30 winners will be shortly and invited to the conference. There, an overall winner will be announced.
The latest nominees, and the final ones to be added to our list, are as follows:
mBit — a… Continue Reading
Voice-to-text mobile transcription service Yap raises $6.5M
We all know that the iPhone’s brilliant interface has changed the game. But let’s face it: while we’ve learned to deal with the touch-based keyboard on our iPhones, typing in messages is an inelegant process that is often executed with total disregard for the surrounding world. Some people (myself included) walk down the street while texting, pulling up directions on Google Maps, or updating Twitter. Some even send text messages as they drive. And so… Continue Reading
New companies launch: Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Faroo & more
Ten companies presented during today’s morning portion of Techcrunch40 conference in San Francisco. If we were able to have stock in these companies, here’s how we’d rank them: CastTV, Cubic Telecom, Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Powerset, Trutap, Faroo, Ceedo and Loudtalks. Summaries of each company follow.
CastTV, the video search engine — We’ve written about the company before, and it still hasn’t launched publicly. The development today is that it showed live demonstrations for the first time…. Continue Reading