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2Mar/10

sheena: Demo your App inside Apps World at CTIA

Have an App? Want to Demo it at CTIA inside Apps World? You can with Mobile Monday

Mobile Monday along with CTIA is giving Mobile Monday companies two ways to be part of the largest wireless show in the US.

If you are a smaller company and want a booth at CTIA inside Apps World – the most anticipated new area of the show – this is your chance. For 4K you can have a booth in the Mobile Monday Pavilion. It’s a turnkey space that includes 5 exhibitor badges, a draped table, chairs, carpet and 7.5X10 booth space.

You can’t top the price. You will be in Apps World along with Samsung, Motorola, Palm, RIM, Opera, Navteq, Infosys, and more. As an exhibitor you also get a code to invite your developers partners and programs to register and attend CTIA for free.

To sign up or get more details – booth space is limited - contact Mobile Monday organizers Kevin Keating kkeating@thelucidway.com <mailto:kkeating@thelucidway.com>  or Sheena Chandok schandok@thelucidway.com <mailto:schandok@thelucidway.com> . You can also find more information at Mobile Monday Americas http://mobilemondayamerica.com/ctia-2010/

Demo Your App
Mobile Monday will host two live Mobile Monday meetings inside Apps World on the Mobile{Dev}Sync Stage. This is your chance to show off your best App or your expertise in mobile.

The Mobile Monday meetings will start with a 30 minute panel discussion live on stage and then give six companies 5 minutes each to demonstrate their best, unique or downright fun Mobile Applications.

If you want to take your App center stage inside Apps World at CTIA or be part of a panel send us your pitch NOW. Tell us:
1. Who you are
2. What is your App to demo or area of expertise for a mobile panel
3. Why your app is unique and should be on stage at CTIA
4. You idea for a gripping Mobile Monday panel discussion topic

Send details to mobiledevsync@thelucidway.com <mailto:mobiledevsync@thelucidway.com>

Mobile Monday meeting will take place on two days, March 23rd and 24th

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22Feb/10

New York: NY Startup PercentMobile Takes Home the GOLD for Early Stage Innovation at the Mobile Premier Awards

New York startup PercentMobile won GOLD in the category of Early Stage Innovation at the Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona.

The Mobile Premier Awards event took place on February 15 in an unusual cold and rainy Barcelona. With over 500 attendees, 11 awards and 26 startup presentations it is was once again the great showcase of mobile innovation.

The Mobile Premier Awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress and are organized by dotopen in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

It should be noted that PercentMobile’s co-founders Stan Wiechers, Alexis Rondeau, and David Harper (former MobileMonday NY organizer/chapter co-founder) met for the first time in person at a MobileMonday NY event.

About PercentMobile
http://percentmobile.com
PercentMobile, a New York-based mobile analytics company, brings simplicity and accuracy together, to create people-friendly experiences that help you understand your mobile audience and turn findings into action. | 7 Reasons to Consider Mobile Analytics by PercentMobile.

Request an Invite to Mobile Analytics by PercentMobile
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14Feb/10

Silicon Valley: Slides from Feb 8th Event

Thanks to Flurry, Admob, Flixster, Tripit and Booyah for approving the publishing of their slides.

enjoy

–mario

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6Feb/10

Dallas: Forum Nokia presents: Developer offerings and distribution opportunities.

Join Forum Nokia at the InfoMart(Big in Japan office) Monday, February at 7PM for an update on Nokia developer offerings and business and distribution opportunities. We’ll be providing an overview of the Nokia web developer experience, including web runtime and Flash, Qt for S60 and Maemo and more. Local mobile developer luminary Kirk Ballou of Flash Widgets LLC will be co-hosting, and showing demos of some of the applications he’s developed for Nokia devices. We’ll also provide an update on the Ovi Store and the Open Screen Project Fund. Food and refreshments will be provided.

Sponsors:
Architel: http://www.architel.com (Hosting)
Forum Nokia: http://forum.nokia.com
Flash Widgets: http://flash-widgets.com

This is a combined Mobile Monday Dallas / Adobe Mobile User Group event.

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RSVP on our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=287502096051&ref=mf


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29Jan/10

Silicon Valley: 2/8 Event: Developer Secrets – Increasing App Store Sales

The App Store has changed mobile. It’s simply the most accessible and lucrative market place for developers to sell their apps. However, with over 140,000 apps there are real challenges of discovery and customer acquisition.

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is here to help by rounding up a series of companies who are addressing the challenges of discovery so they can share their lessons with you. Topics will range from Advertising, Cross-selling, Social Media Marketing, Free Trial, and more.

Come and learn best practices from developers and other commerce enablers who have tested and identified what drives effective discovery in the App Store. Learn, mingle and enjoy a hosted bar!

The format will be a series of rapid fire presentations from developers including Flixster, Booyah and TripIt.

The event is being hosted by our awesome sponsors, Flurry and Admob.

Logistics
Location: Parc 55, 55 Cyril Magnin St., San Francisco
Date: Monday, February 8th at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Cost: Free. But registration is required to attend.
Drinks: Also, free.

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27Jan/10

New York: The Mobile Premier Awards Announces the 20 Finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation

The Mobile Premier Awards announces the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

The year’s MPA best in Mobile Startup Innovation Finalists are:

The finalists chosen to the Innovation Awards will present along with the winners in the other categories chosen by our partner networks (see below). You can follow their activities here on this MPA Finalist Twitter List.

Mobile Premier Awards Registration
To attend the Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona on February 15, you can buy full price tickets here on Amiando. If you are a member of dotopen, you (and up to four of your colleagues) can buy a special ticket price of 39€ instead of 99€ for non-members, and you get  additional benefits. Check here for all details on registration.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEXMobileActive.orgWomen 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

This year we have received over 600 startup submissions from all continents to the different awards.

MPA in Innovation
The classic peer-reviewed, global grassroots competition where MobileMonday chapters nominate a local startup to eventually pitch in Barcelona.

MPA in Marketing
The best startup in Mobile Marketing – in partnership in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association.

MPA in Entertainment
The best startup in Mobile Entertainment in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum.

MPA in User Experience
The best startup in Mobile User Experience in partnership with MEX.

MPA in Social Change
The best startup using mobile for social change in partnership with MobileActive.org.

MPA in Female Entrepreneurship
The best woman-lead mobile startup in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

The Mobile Premier Awards are a once a year opportunity to reach the most influential professionals and companies in innovation in the mobile industry and so it offers unique opportunities for visibility and communication. If you are interested, ask us for some more information at info(AT)mobilepremierawards(DOT)com.

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18Jan/10

New York: MobileMonday NY’s First Event for 2010 is Being Rescheduled for Disaster Relief Effort with Other NY Tech Organizations

In light of the heart wrenching devastation that has struck Haiti, we are rescheduling the originally planned event to initiate and host a special Haiti disaster relief event.

We have reached out to others and are now working with fellow NY technology groups including Girls in Tech, Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable, SoS, and many others.

We will be updating the site with details and will keep you posted with further details in the comings hours and day.

Please contact Lubna here if you wish to volunteer.

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12Jan/10

Boston: Announcing Jeff Glass as our first guest blogger

Today we’re beginning a new series of guest blog posts on Mobile Monday Boston. Most analysts are predicting 2010 to be a turning point for the mobile industry. There’s a tremendous amount happening in the mobile industry in Boston and we hope through this series to bring some new voices to you.

To kick off the series, we’ve invited Jeff Glass to comment on the Quattro acquisition. Having sold m-Qube to Verisign for $250 million, Jeff is in a unique position to talk about the recent acquisition of Quattro.

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9Jan/10

Boston: Quattro Wireless and Apple in the News

We kick off the new decade with some great news for Boston.

Andy, Eswar, and the rest of the team have been great friends of Mobile Monday over the years and we’re very happy about their success. Here’s some of the news on Quattro’s acquisition by Apple.

Official announcement from Quattro

Techcrunch

WSJ

Silicon Valley Mercury News

Boston.com

New York Times

Newsweek

GigaOm

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31Dec/09

Silicon Valley: 1/11 Event: Virtual Goods and Micropayments on Mobile and Beyond

The next Mobile Monday Silicon Valley event on January 11 (register now before we sell out) will feature a panel discussion on the booming, $1 billion market for virtual goods. Our panelists, including executives from mobile payment platforms, game publishers and application developers, will discuss how they have successfully generated revenue with virtual goods, challenges presented by this new model for monetization, and their views on how the market will evolve in 2010.

This event is possible thanks to generous sponsorship from Hi-media. Details on the company are below.

Panel
Lex Bayer - General Manager Payments Business, Playspan
Doug Bewsher - CMO, Mig33
Mark Curtis - CEO, Flirtomatic
Steven Lurie - General Manager Mobile, Zynga
Pooj Preena - CEO, Hi-media USA
Justin Smith - Founder, Inside Network (moderator)
Roger Wood - CEO, Orca

Logistics
Location: W Hotel San Francisco (kinda awesome.)
Date: January 11th at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend. (costs you nothing!)
Cocktails: provided (and you get free drinks!)

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

About Hi-media

Hi-media is an on-line media group, content publisher and provider of services designed to grow, retain and monetize Internet audiences. Our unique business model covers the entire media value chain and generates two revenue streams: sales of Internet advertising via our internal and external network, revenues from providing micropayment solutions to on-line publishers. Now, with an enhanced range of mobile services, Hi-media is pursuing its strategy of becoming a major player in all digital media and services.
Due to the overwhelming growth of virtual goods and the increasing need for online monetization, Hi-media is extending its business to the United States where it has set up operations for Hi-media USA in San Francisco, led by tech industry veteran Pooj Preena.

The group which operates in 9 European countries, USA and Brazil employs more than 500 people and posted in 2008 135 million euros in sales (excluding AdLink). Independent since its creation in 1996, the company is listed since 2000 on the Euronext Eurolist Paris (Eurolist C) and is included in the SBF 250, CAC IT and CAC Small 90. ISIN code: FR0000075988. Hi-media qualifies for FCPI as it received the OSEO label of “innovating company.”

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