article thumbnail

Marketers Focus More Attention on Mobile Gaming

YoungUpstarts

Those stereotypes have quickly been shattering, however, with the emergence and immense popularity of mobile gaming. In 2013, there were 909 million mobile gamers worldwide, nearly half of which resided in the Asia Pacific region, and 146 million of which came from North America. Exponential Growth of Mobile Gamers.

Mobile 100
article thumbnail

[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

. “It promises to be… the start of a new, collaborative era for those working in Asia’s LBS space,” asserts Christian Geissendoerfer, founder of hyper-local mobile ad network YOOSE , and one of the founding members of LBMA Singapore.

Singapore 165
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2018: Year in review and a look ahead

Version One Ventures

Celo : An open platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost. This should serve as a reminder that while we are spending lots of time in crypto and bio, we are still excited about network effects that exist in VR/AR, autonomy, etc.,

article thumbnail

Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2 Hibernia Atlantics network of subsea cables provides some of the worlds best internet connections. of all business.

Canada 167
article thumbnail

What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

In the past week, Rakuten , a Japanese e-commerce company, bought Viber , a mobile messaging video app, for $900M; and Facebook bought WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app with 450M active monthly users globally (almost entirely outside of the US), for a deal that could be worth $19B after earnouts.

India 107
article thumbnail

Techpreneur and CEO Leads a Company to Reign in Testing of Software For Tech Companies

Hearpreneur

The company started in 2011 in Berlin, and was looking for an American or someone who’d worked for a long time in America to help with a planned US expansion, since the biggest market for the company’s services is in North America. The Germany angle was intriguing for me. Tell us about your products and services.

article thumbnail

The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America

crowdSPRING Blog

MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released a report on 2013 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North America. Not surprisingly, all content marketing tactics are being used more frequently, including research reports, videos, and mobile content.