We're delighted to announce the MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition, which will culminate with the winners being announced at the MobileBeat 2012 conference July 10-11 in San Francisco...
Cloud storage provider Box.net: build your apps on top of us
Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed company’s storage and collaboration tools in their apps, the company announced today.
“We have 40 developers building that back-end stack, and …
Onavo, Roar Engine dominate MobileBeat startup contest
We chose 16 mobile startups to take part in our MobileBeat 2011 startup competition today, but only two could win our coveted Tesla prize.
Onavo, a company that compresses mobile data on smartphones and tablets, and Roar Engine, which impressed …
Japanese monster social network Kaiju’s got game this year at GamesBeat 2011
This year’s winner of VentureBeat’s “Who’s Got Game” startup competition this year is Kaiju, a social games maker that creates games built around outlandish Godzilla-style monsters.
This company makes games that bring comically outlandish Japanese-style monsters back to video games. …
Cloud storage provider Box.towill throw two-day conference in September
Conferences. All the cool kids are doing them — VentureBeat included, though we’ll get to that later. And it looks like cloud storage provider Box.net is ready to join that classy group.
Box.net announced that it will host a two-day …
Introducing our first wave of MobileBeat 2011 speakers
Preparations for our fourth annual MobileBeat conference are speeding along. Today, we’re announcing our first round of speakers for the event: Mihir Shah, president and CEO of the app monetization and distribution service Tapjoy; Jason Spero, director of mobile at Google; and Matt Murphy, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
MobileBeat 2011 is taking place...
Who wins in the 4G nirvana? Find out at MobileBeat 2011 on July 12-13
MobileBeat 2011 — VentureBeat’s fourth annual conference on the future of mobile — is convening the brightest minds in the industry to explore who will win in what we’re calling “the 4G Nirvana.”
The mobile industry was already on fire. But the arrival of 4G wireless networking this year the will drive the industry through an...
Acision swoops up $100M as mobile data gains speed
Notoriously well-connected Russian-American billionaire Len Blavatnik has decided to place a sizable bet on mobile data leader Acision, on Tuesday announcing he would lead the way in a $100 million funding infusion into the firm.
Blavatnik will partner...
Android overtakes BlackBerry (again) as lead U.S. smartphone platform
Google’s Android mobile platform is (yet again) the top-selling mobile operating system among recent cellphone buyers, according to August data from The Nielsen Company.
We predicted this would happen in August when Nielsen’s data showed An...
Nokia loses chief of new mobile platform, MeeGo
Nokia’s executives keep dropping like flies. Ari Jaaksi (pictured right), the head of Nokia’s next-generation MeeGo mobile platform, confirmed that he resigned last week. He made the comments in a conversation with the Finnish newspaper Tal...
