The Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition is the biggest mobile app competition in the world according to the organizers. From 160 entries, one finalist was chosen from each of the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and Portugal. The winner of the first …
Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (pictured) and his wife Pam, plans to spend a sizable chunk of its money over the next three years on government transparency and mobile services.
Specifically, the firm …
HipLogic is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Wireless IP networking company NearVerse has just rolled out an Android version of its LoKast mobile content-sharing app. LoKast is designed to help people within 300 feet of each other share content – music, contact information, text documents – easily …
Facebook is going to go beyond rolling out standalone applications for iPhones, Google Android devices or feature phones and start considering itself a platform for developers to distribute mobile apps with.
“Where we’re going from here is a platform strategy. …
Dilithium Networks, a converged video services provider for wireless Internet and mobile networks, has raised $1.5 million of an expected $4 million in equity and debt round, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Petaluma, Calif., the telecommunications …
We’re pleased to announce that Phil McKinney, VP and CTO of Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Systems Group, will be keynoting at MobileBeat 2010, a conference held by VentureBeat on July 12 to 13 in San Francisco. As the man in charge of …
TeleNav (TNAV), provider of mobile-phone navigation services, had an incredibly strong first day on the market, with its share price rising 23 percent — even though it slashed its price from the forecasted $11 to $13 range to $8 upon …
Two senior members of the Google’s Android team departed this week. And from what it sounds like, this may just be the beginning.
Erick Tseng, the senior product manager who essentially ran the Android team day to day and shepherded …
MightyMeeting, a mobile meeting app for iPhone and Android platform handsets as well as PCs, today announced it has secured a seed round of funding for $300,000. The seed round comes just 21 days after launching at VentureBeat’s DEMO Spring …
Today, at the MIX10 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform will feature Netflix as one of its third-party launch applications — including Netflix’s popular Watch Instantly streaming video service.
The announcement is …
Can the world handle yet another location-based social network?
Andreessen-Horowitz is betting it can, after investing $500,000 with Baseline Ventures into Burbn. Burbn is a stealth location-sharing project from a well-connected former Googler, Kevin Systrom, who has had stints at …
While the blogosphere was buzzing over the patent Facebook won for its news feed last week, Google earned a killer one too. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the search giant a patent for using location in an advertising …
With more and more data-heavy 3G phones hitting the market, mobile carriers are having a tough time dealing with the influx of new traffic. The data hungry iPhone has caused problems for AT&T, and things will only get worse for …
What Google unveiled this week was not just a device, the Nexus One, but a vision for the way phones should be bought and sold.
Andy Rubin, who became Google’s mobile chief after it acquired his startup Android, said he …
Google is poised to unveil its strongest iPhone rival yet later today — the Nexus One.
Originally hyped as the Google Phone, the Nexus One now has the tech blogosphere scratching its head over what appears to be a top-of-the-line, …
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As data and web access started shifting to mobile devices, applications emerged and traditional phone calls began a slow decline, all but superseded by texting, mobile apps and the wireless web.
Today, texting and mobile applications have surpassed voice in …
Let the monetization begin: SocialCord has created a platform for musicians, writers and brands to build a “freemium” model delivered over Twitter or mobile phones. For example, bands wrestling with how to make a living from their music can send …
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