Dobango, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through fan competitions on Pinterest, just announced that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding.
The company is led by Devkumar Gandhi, who previously founded mobile advertising startup Nexage.
It’s hard enough just keeping your head above water as an entrepreneur or small business owner without having to worry about how you’re going to afford to build mobile apps. You know your business needs mobile apps, that you need to be where your customers are — regardless of platform or device.
AdMobius, a startup founded by team members from Apple’s iAd program, is coming out of stealth mode today, and co-founder/ CEO Dan Grigorovici says the company is tackling one of the biggest problems in mobile ads — helping advertisers reach their desired audience.
To do that, AdMobius combines data from publishers, from ad networks and other aggregators, and from third-party data sellers.
SkyGiraffe, an enterprise mobile platform provider, has raised a seed round from well-known investors, including Parker Thompson, a partner at 500 Startups and Yuval Neeman, a former corporate vice president at Microsoft, who started and led the company’s .Net development.
SkyGiraffe makes a platform called SkyGiraffe Studio that connects data from different business groups with mobile apps,
Mowbly, which recently launched and is here at Disrupt NY, takes a counter approach to mobile development platform environments.
Instead of a steady stream of apps, Mowbly uses a single-app approach that it offers through its mobile platform as a service (PaaS), said Co-Founder Vignesh Swaminathan. Mowbly offers third-party app support.
Facebook has just acquired Parse, marking its entry into a whole new business category: paid tools and services for developing mobile apps.
The company is buying the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup (yes, the industry acronym is mBaaS) in a deal that we’ve heard is worth $85 million.
You scrolled right past the old design for Facebook’s “Pages You Might Like” mobile ads. Too much gray, not enough description. But they just got updated to show colorful banners and explain what a business does. Their designer Jeff Kanter thinks you’ll stop to give them a look. Maybe even a tap.
While T-Mobile is more than a bit late to the LTE game, the company confirmed on Monday that their new network would be launching by the end of the month. Where it would launch, however, was kept under wraps.
That’s the idea, at least.
Home services marketplace Redbeacon has come a long way since it’s inception at TC50. They’ve raised a total of $7.4 million, were acquired by Home Depot, and have made the difficult transition to mobile in the past five years.
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