According to Imran Kahn, analyst for J.P. Morgan, mobile display advertising is expected to grow by 81% from $140 million in 2009 to $253 million in 2010. Todacell, the mobile ad optimization network based in Tel Aviv, has announced a second funding round of $1 million, led by AfterDox, the company’s previous backers. The proceeds of this round has …
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About 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’. Looking at the conference agenda, it’s not hard to …
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Voice calls are so 2009. Yesterday, Fring gave us a little taste of the future of mobile calls with the introduction of video calls on the iPhone for Skype users.
TechCrunch reports that Fring, the Israeli start up developing VOIP and chat applications, has raised a C round from its current investors, who have already poured $13 million to date. Backers include: North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Veritas Venture Partners and VenFin Limited. Only a week ago,we posted on Fring’s iPhone app for mobile …
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The Israeli start up “Fring” brings social life into your smart phones; it combines Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, SIP, AIM and Twitter into one piece of software and allows you to be connected to your friends, all the time. Fring support the Skype VOIP technology so the user can use his PDA\Smart Device …
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The fourth of July came and gone as quickly as the fireworks show. Unfortunately, San Francisco was too foggy to see anything. Speaking of visibility, I put together a short list of recommended reads to kick off the week on the right foot: Entrepreneurship 101: One-person companies are earning upward of $1 million in revenue …
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Last week’s top story was with no doubt Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo. The plot was full of twists and drama, saved only to”Jurassic Park” style M&A deals like this one. Israel didn’t stand still last week, so I’ve gathered the most interesting startup and venture capital headlines of the week in my bitesize format. …
One of my favorite blogs in Hebrew, thecoils, has posted a comprehensive overview of the venture capital and M&A activity of Israeli companies and funds in 2007, as well as some predictions for 2008. For those who can’t read Hebrew, I translated and summarized the main points from the post and added a few bits …
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Lately, it seems like there’s a new startup competition or award announced every single day. Just recently I’ve covered Red Herring’s Top 100, Deloitte’s Fast 500, Le Web 3 start up competition and the list goes on. You’ve also probably heard of the Crunchies, same idea, but louder buzz. The Crunchies is a collaboration project …
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