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Mobeam Extends Series A Venture Round With New Funds

Monday, February 6th, 2012

mobeam

On the heels of major news, mobeam adds another $1.5 million from new and existing investors

Mobeam inc. (www.mobeam.com) announced today the company has added another $1.5 million on top of the $4.9 million Series A venture round announced in October 2011. The company adds new investor DFJ Athena, a Korea-focused venture fund affiliated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as new funds from existing investor and board chairman Ben DuPont. DFJ Athena’s founder and managing director, Perry Ha, also joins mobeam’s board of directors.

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Live Gamer Partners with PaymentOne to Expand International Mobile Payment Options

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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SAN JOSE, Calif.MobilityWire® – January 31, 2012

PaymentOne (www.paymentone.com), a global leader in mobile payments, and Live Gamer (www.livegamer.com), the world’s first combined digital commerce and advertising platform for the interactive entertainment industry,  today announced that PaymentOne has been added to the Live Gamer platform to expand global mobile payment options. PaymentOne’s AnyPhone platform offers end users the simplest means possible for making in-game purchases with their mobile phones.

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OnPoint Community Credit Union Partners with Tyfone to Launch iCashé Mobile Wallet Program

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Tyfone

New service allows members to purchase and send gift cards with a smart phone

Through a partnership with Portland-based mobile financial services firm Tyfone, OnPoint Community Credit Union today announced the launch of the iCashé Mobile Wallet program. iCashé Mobile Wallet provides OnPoint members with a simple and fun way to purchase gift cards on their mobile phones and send to anyone instantly by text message or email. OnPoint is the first credit union in the nation to offer the iCashé Mobile Wallet program to members. (more…)

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What Mobile Apps Can Do For Campaigns in 2012

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

“It’s About the Data, Stupid”

2012 is not 2008. In 2000 all successful campaigns had a website. In 2008 all successful campaigns had a Facebook page. In 2010 all successful campaigns used Twitter and text. It’s 2012, and today, all successful campaigns need a mobile app.

Today, most mobile apps are just mini-version of web sites. Rather than just providing news and events about the campaign, mobile apps should provide tools and data that enable people to take action or solve a problem. (more…)

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Tyfone Introduces iCashé Mobile Wallet That Combines Mobile Banking With Digital Commerce

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Tyfone

iCashé is the first mobile wallet people can use today to make purchases from over 100 participating merchant brands

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com) announced today the availability of iCashé™, a new mobile wallet and eCommerce engine that for the first time delivers purchasing power through any mobile banking application. Built entirely on top of Tyfone’s award-winning u4ia® mobile financial services platform, iCashé is the industry’s only service to blend comprehensive mobile banking features with convenient consumer purchasing, gifting and loyalty programs. With the option of adding Tyfone’s SideTap™ microSD secure element technology, iCashé also provides contactless NFC payments and the highest level of secure identity management.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: mobeam at CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2011

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

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mobeam, inc. (www.mobeam.com) announced today that it has closed a $4.9 million Series A venture round, receiving funding from yet2Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Mitsui, together with other independent investors. mobeam’s patented technology overcomes the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with the laser scanners used at retail locations around the world. Funds from this multimillion dollar funding round will be used to establish mobeam’s light based communications (LBC) technology as a new industry standard allowing mobile phones to interact with point of sale (POS) technology. mobeam is also using these new funds to accelerate business development efforts with major consumer and retail brands for mobile couponing and other broad mobile commerce initiatives.

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mobeam Closes Initial Venture Round

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

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mobeam will drive evolution of mobile couponing and ticketing with new light based communications that enable mobile phones to send information to the more than 165 million red laser scanners already in use around the world

mobeam, inc. (www.mobeam.com) announced today that it has closed a $4.9 million Series A venture round, receiving funding from yet2Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Mitsui, together with other independent investors. mobeam’s patented technology overcomes the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with the laser scanners used at retail locations around the world. Funds from this multimillion dollar funding round will be used to establish mobeam’s light based communications (LBC) technology as a new industry standard allowing mobile phones to interact with point of sale (POS) technology. mobeam is also using these new funds to accelerate business development efforts with major consumer and retail brands for mobile couponing and other broad mobile commerce initiatives.

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Remote payments to drive USD $22.5 billion m-commerce market

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Vesta Corporation

White paper outlines how remote payments, not NFC, will provide lucrative opportunities for mobile operators

A white paper commissioned by Vesta Corporation, a global pioneer and leader in electronic payments, highlights the significant opportunity that remote payments present to mobile operators.  The white paper, compiled by Informa Telecoms & Media, reveals that end-user revenues from m-commerce services, delivered over cellular networks, are expected to grow to more than US $22.5 billion by 2014.  These m-commerce services will include mobile banking, remote mobile payments, local mobile payments and mobile money transfers.

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BOLT SDK to Power Next Generation Mobile Email Service in Asia on Mobile Phones of All Types

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

BOLT Mobile Browser

Bitstream’s cloud computing architecture, now available as a software development kit, enables robust Web applications that run on the widest number of mobile phones

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that one of Asia’s premier provider of online news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services, is using the BOLT™ SDK as the core technology for mobilizing its next generation email service, making the service available to mobile phones of all types. Based on the award-winning cloud computing architecture that has made BOLT the mobile browser of choice for more than 20 million people worldwide, the BOLT SDK enables carriers, handset manufacturers and other service providers to build feature rich Java ME applications that can work just as well as on entry-level feature phones as they do on high-end smartphones. The BOLT SDK lets any company with Web-based content, such as media companies, produce mobile Java apps that are ready to run on billions of mobile phones already in the market.

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appMobi Releases Mobile Web Services Creating Most Comprehensive Mobile App Ecosystem Available

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

appMobi

appMobi platform provides everything required for developing, testing, distributing and monetizing cross-platform native and Web apps

appMobi® (www.appmobi.com) today announced the addition of four mobile Web services to its comprehensive Platform as a Service (PaaS) mobile app ecosystem solution. Through its free cross platform developer toolkit, the appMobi XDK, appMobi now provides mobile application and Web developers the most complete integrated set of hosted tools and services.

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