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APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). That is conformity. People buy at the wrong times. Why should you care?

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. We wanted to be the YouTube of document sharing so rather than requiring users to download documents we converted them into Flash so you could scroll through them online (I know this is common today, it wasn’t when we launched).

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

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APRIL 17, 2010

But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Similar current buzz-meter terms include: geo-location, geo-fencing, local deals, local offers, flash sales, group sales, privates sales and augmented reality. I think by now we all sort of assume that social is pervasive in everything you do in the way that location-aware is assumed in all mobile apps. And of course – badges.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

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