MobileVillage announced today the winners of its 8th annual Mobile Star Awards, awarding Flycell, Inc. CEO Alberto Montesi top honors with the SUPERSTAR award in the Visionary: Consumer Software and Services category. The mobile and online media and entertainment destination also received the top honor by being named SUPERSTAR in the Consumer App: Entertainment or Media Services category, paying tribute to the exceptional year Flycell’s service enjoyed in 2009 under Montesi’s leadership.
Flycell, Inc., a leading mobile and online entertainment content company, today announced quarterly financial results citing Q3 2009 as the most successful quarter in the company’s five year history, with an impressive 87 percent increase in revenue over Q3 2008. Despite the economic downturn, Flycell once again reported double-digit growth, including growth in each of its existing countries of operation. Revenue for the first three quarters of 2009 is already a full $23 million more than the results for all of 2008, the most successful full year Flycell has had to date.
Flycell, Inc., a leading mobile and online entertainment content company, today announced quarterly financial results citing Q2 2009 as the most successful quarter in the company’s five year history. Despite the economic downturn, Flycell again reported double-digit growth, including growth in each of its existing countries of operation. Revenue for the first half of 2009 is almost equal to the results for all of 2008, the most successful full year Flycell has had to date.
Alberto Montesi, founder and CEO of Flycell, Inc., a leading mobile and online entertainment content company, has earned a Certificate of Finalist Recognition for Executive of the Year in North America in the 2009 International Business AwardsSM, known as the Stevies. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.
Flycell, Inc., the popular mobile and online media and entertainment company, is making it easy for football fans everywhere to keep up with their favorite National Football League (NFL) teams with the introduction of Sports Alerts, a premium text alert service. Sports Alerts complements Flycell’s already diverse and growing offering of online and mobile games and quizzes, all available at Flycell.com.
Flycell, Inc., the popular mobile and online media and entertainment company, is setting out to make mobile quizzes sexy and fun with its new subscription-based premium text service, SMS Love. SMS Love complements Flycell’s already diverse and growing offering of online and mobile games and quizzes, all available at Flycell.com.
Flycell, Inc., the popular mobile and online media and entertainment company, today announced Bid Hunter, a new strategy game played both online and via mobile phones where players are challenged to come up with the lowest unique guess to win big ticket prizes. Bid Hunter complements Flycell’s already diverse and growing offering of online and mobile games of every genre, all available at Flycell.com.
Flycell, Inc., a leading mobile and online entertainment content company, today announced the company has achieved over 60 percent growth comparing Q1 2009 to Q1 2008 and over 25 percent comparing Q1 2009 to Q4 2008. Even as industry analyst firms have forecasted falling mobile content and entertainment revenues as discretionary spending declines due to the current economy, Flycell reported its two best-ever quarters with Q1 2009 being the most successful in the company’s four year history. Flycell’s parent company, Acotel Group (MIL: ACO), reported Flycell earned approximately $75 million in 2008. For Q1 2009 Acotel reports Flycell took in close to $23 million in revenue as compared to $14 million in Q1 2008. Flycell continues to be a profitable enterprise.
Cascada Mobile today announced a partnership with Polar Mobile to utilize Cascada’s Breeze mobile development platform to quickly and easily extend the reach of Polar Mobile’s platform beyond smart phones to Java-based mobile phones. The first Breeze-built mobile app will be for The Hockey News, a leading hockey publication.
With Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform, developers can create mobile apps in as little as 15 minutes that can take full advantage of the functions and features of mobile phones and smart phones – from the address book to the camera. Breeze-built mobile applications are tested and ported to operate on hundreds of different device makes and models as well as hundreds of networks around the globe, making Breeze-created applications available and ready to run on billions of phones worldwide.
“Polar Mobile has been tremendously successful offering publishers an easy way to get their mobile content to their readers,” said Alan Lysne, CEO, Cascada Mobile. “Our platform lets them offer mobile content to ‘feature phone’ users, enabling them to reach a completely new audience. The first mobile app is a version of The Hockey News, a publication dedicated to hockey fans.”
Media publishers globally are working with Polar Mobile’s proprietary push-publishing platform to effectively extend their brands to mobile phones. Through device-based applications that users download over the air directly to their mobile phone, users have access to content from their favorite publications much faster than browsing through traditional mobile websites.
“Offering fresh content from leading publishers to customers via platforms such as BlackBerry and iPhone has been tremendously successful for us,” said Kunal Gupta, CEO, Polar Mobile. “We recognize the large market outside smart phones that we want to reach and our partnership with Cascada allows us to do exactly that.”
The application will be free to download for users and will provide a new channel for advertisers that seamlessly works with Polar Mobile’s platform. SMS ‘cmap get hockey’ to 32075 to download the application to your feature phone.
About Cascada Mobile
Cascada Mobile offers the simplest method for creating and distributing mobile applications for the billions of mobile phones in use around the world. Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform eliminates the enormous complexities of writing mobile applications in J2ME – the most widely used mobile platform, and provides a one-stop shop for mobilizing applications to run on hundreds of different handset models and distributing them across wireless operators worldwide. Using basic HTML and JavaScript, any Web savvy individual can create rich J2ME applications though Breeze. For more information on Cascada Mobile and the Breeze Platform please visit www.cascadamobile.com.
About Polar Mobile
Polar Mobile is a leading North American mobile solutions provider. Polar Mobile’s content and advertising platform (SMART™) provides publishers, brands and advertisers the tools to deliver, measure and monetize digital media on all major mobile devices including BlackBerry and iPhone smart phones. Polar has a proven track record in the delivery of personalized content, strong user experiences and feature-rich mobile applications for the sports, finance, news and entertainment verticals. For more information, visit www.polarmobile.com.
Flycell and The Island Def Jam Music Group Team Up for a Daily Trivia and Music Awards Predictions Contest at Flycell
To gear up for music’s biggest night of the year, The Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJ), a unit of Universal Music Group, and Flycell, Inc. (www.Flycell.com), the popular mobile and online media and entertainment company, have teamed up for a promotional contest around the music awards show airing February 8th at 8pm. The promotional contest, open to all Flycell subscribers and visitors, will feature 30 days of music trivia with daily prize packs and an ‘And the Winner Is…’ prediction contest with a grand prize VIP trip for two to see this year’s GRAMMY® nominee for Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Pop Vocal Album, Duffy, in concert at a secret location, including round trip airfare, concert tickets, hotel accommodations, and a jam-packed VIP Duffy goodie bag.
