MobileBeat 2009: Feedback about content, news and dealmaking
Last week, about 500 people attended MobileBeat, our sold-out mobile conference in San Francisco.
Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Most people said they enjoyed the content debates and the jazz-filled reception afterward. In one case, a startup entrepreneur said he got three meetings with venture capitalists… Continue Reading
Thanks for coming to MobileBeat2009!
Thanks to all of you who made it to MobileBeat2009 yesterday!
We had a wide-ranging discussion of the biggest mobile trends of the day. One conclusion from all of the excitement: the U.S. is leapfrogging Europe.
That’s not a conclusion made by us. It came from several… Continue Reading
Come to MobileBeat 2009 — an executive conference on mobile innovation!
We’re pleased to announce our second annual mobile conference, called MobileBeat 2009, on July 16, 2009 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco.
The event centers on the rise of the “mobile application,” and the profound influence its having on our lives — and, by… Continue Reading
MobileBeat is tomorrow. Latest addition: Bart Decrem, owner of top iPhone app
Make sure you’ve registered for MobileBeat, our mobile conference.
I think it’s going to be fun, because we’ve gathered all the significant mobile players under same roof: Carriers, handset manufacturers, operating systems, content providers, top investors, and leading start-ups. We’ll have cocktail party to cap it… Continue Reading
The rise of the mobile platform-device, and the decline of the operators
Over the last five years, we’ve seen a staggering creation of wealth by two companies with mobile device strategies: Apple (which owns the iPod and iPhone) and RIM (which owns the blackberry).
Their success comes even as the major operators have stagnated — the big three… Continue Reading
MobileBeat: We’ve added free session for developers, including operators
We’ve added a special pre-event session to MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
This will be a free session for developers focused specifically on the trends we’re seeing on services platforms (Nokia’s OVI, for example) and operating systems (Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, etc.) and how they’re impacting… Continue Reading
These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage
After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They are as follows:
Applications:
Kyte.tv — a live video company… Continue Reading
Latest MobileBeat2008 additions: Facebook’s Jed Stremel, MySpace’s Brandon Lucas, Skydeck’s Jason Devitt
I’m delighted to announce three more panelists for MobileBeat2008, our mobile conference scheduled for July 24.
They are Jed Stremel, director of mobile at Facebook (pictured top left), Brandon Lucas, senior director of mobile business development (pictured middle) at MySpace, and Jason Devitt, chief executive of… Continue Reading
Mobile 2.0: Rummble, Zipiko and Dial2do shine, but venture captialists express caution
After being in the US the last few months I attended the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference last Friday.
The Mobile 2.0 events are known for often being early in championing mobile issues that become more mainstream later. They’re also known for giving a variety of folks… Continue Reading
Five trends driving the mobile web
During the voting process for best mobile company (see our MobileBeat2008 voting page), we started to map the mobile landscape.
Led by Matthaus Krzykowski, a consultant at Mobile-Facts, and getting feedback from other experts, we’ve segmented the main mobile sectors. The diagrams below illustrate our conclusions…. Continue Reading
Mobile ad company Admob is about to mint money
Advertising on mobile phones is a trying market. Americans have been slow to surf the mobile web, in large part because dominant carriers have made browsing the web so painful.
But one young company, Admob, is showing impressive results despite all this, according to interviews and… Continue Reading
MobileBeat voting ends. Latest speaker additions: Arrington, Malik and Nishar
Voting for the best mobile companies has ended as of noon. We’ll be announcing more details about the winners after the holiday weekend.
Winners will be invited to MobileBeat, our conference on July 24 about the tectonic changes happening in the mobile industry.
Mippin, a mobile service… Continue Reading
Earlybird tickets to MobileBeat end tomorrow — expect this to be a good networking event
Earlybird tickets to MobileBeat, our conference focused on the tectonic changes happening in the mobile industry, are on sale until tomorrow — so move quickly.
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers shaping up. I expect the most valuable part will be the networking in the… Continue Reading
Bones in Motion trys to catch up to Garmin with cell phone GPS tracking for athletes
Location-based app maker Bones in Motion is looking to take a bite out of Garmin and other GPS manufacturers, offering up a service that lets runners and bikers user their GPS-enabled cell phones to track distance, speed, and how their training is progressing. Based out… Continue Reading