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 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