A Personal Digital Research Assistant Aimed At Businesses

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on April 3, 2012

A group of software industry veterans are betting that a Zurich-based company can leverage the intersection of search, social networking, business intelligence and content curation to create useful services for corporations, analysts and journalists. Nektoon, a Swiss start-up, has raised $1.5 million from a group of business angels who helped lead the transition from traditional, enterprise –driven software to personalized, user-driven, social apps inside companies like SAP, Qliktech and Siebel Systems. Read more

Mobile Devices In The Living Room: Second Screens Produce New Revenue Streams

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 26, 2012

The Super Bowl has always been an interactive experience for the over 100 million fans of American football. Those who don’t have tickets to the stadium typically bring friends into their homes to share the moment. But this year more than a million people chose a more 21st-century way of engaging with the game from their living rooms, via their mobile devices.Read more

The Google Factor

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 26, 2012

Who could have predicted that a young Silicon Valley company with no expertise in the sector could develop a mobile operating system that would corner half of the global market in just two years? Or that the same company would end up buying once mighty Motorola for $12.5 billion?  Google has successfully pulled off both moves.Read more

Mobile Money: Can Visa And Its Partners Help The Operators Stay In The Game?

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 26, 2012

One of the hottest start-ups in the U.S. is Square, a credit-card reader and mobile app developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. But Monitise and Fundamo – two technology companies that have teamed up with credit card company Visa — are helping traditional players such as mobile operators and banks to push such services to people in countries like Pakistan, where 85% of the population is unbanked, as well as customers in developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, a far bigger and more lucrative business.Read more

The Road Ahead For Alcatel-Lucent and the Mobile Industry

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 26, 2012

In the weeks preceding the 2012 Mobile World Congress, the industry’s annual meeting in Barcelona, Alcatel-Lucent made headlines for a variety of reasons. It announced its first profit since it was formed by the merger of France’s Alcatel and the U.S’s Lucent six years ago. It revealed a plan to license its 29,000 patents, a strategy that could reap the company more than a billion dollars in additional revenue.Read more

LTE: "Big, Dumb" Pipe Or Key To New Carrier Business Models?

Submitted by Roy Rubenstein on February 26, 2012

At a recent dinner party in Munich a US start-up that makes short-length videos was explaining to Informilo how business was booming. The start-up's videos have been downloaded 500 million times, 30% onto mobile devices. Asked what mobile operators the company works with, the reply was: "None, we deal with Google and YouTube." Such over-the-top (OTT) services are clogging operators’networks. And it is only going to get worse. Mobile data traffic is doubling every year.Read more

Industry Icon Irwin Jacobs on Qualcomm and What’s Next for the Industry

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 26, 2012

When the industry’s 60,000 executives depart from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, an era will be about to end. Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm’s co-founder and founding CEO, plans to retire from the board in March, marking his final separation from the San Diego wireless technology giant he built from scratch.

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A Report Card: The Nokia/Microsoft Partnership

Submitted by Eric Sylvers on February 26, 2012

Evoking images of the Allies landing at the Normandy beaches in 1944 Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said in late January that the Finnish mobile phone maker had managed to “establish a beachhead” in the smartphone market.Read more

Turning Mobile Phones Into Teachers

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 25, 2012

The goal was to improve the math skills among at-risk students in North Carolina.. Digital content aligned with the teacher’s algebra lesson plan was created and students were encouraged to learn from each other in and out of the classroom by turning learning into a both a social networking experience and a game on Internet-enabled mobile phones. Not surprisingly, the students’ math scores went up dramatically. The issue now is how to scale such programs globally, a  challenge that will be discussed during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 27-March 1.Read more

Top 25 Hottest Global Mobile Companies

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 25, 2012

To identify the most promising global mobile companies Informilo asked some of the most active investors around the globe to nominate and evaluate companies outside their own portfolios. Some are well-known, others are below the radar but unlikely to stay that way for long. Read on to discover Informilo's 2012 picks for the mobile top 25. The companies are also featured in the 32-page print magazine Informilo produced for the Mobile World Congress, which is taking place in Barcelona February 27-March 1.

 

 

 

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