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.
Editor’s note: Chris Moore is a partner at Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on making investments in consumer Internet, online marketing and SaaS companies. Follow him on his blog and Twitter @Moorski.
This year alone, there is an $11.4 billion mobile advertising opportunity, which means there is tremendous upside for nimble and innovative startups with disruptive mobile-first models.
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,
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Native apps are specific to a given mobile platform (iOS or Android) using the development tools and language that the respective platform supports (e.g., Xcode and Objective-C with iOS, Eclipse and Java with Android). Native apps look and perform the best.
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.
Netbiscuits, the mobile development platform that has worked with the likes of eBay, Google, Coca-Cola and 15,000 other developers on their mobile web services, is ramping up its game as smartphone usage continues to accelerate worldwide. The company today is announcing that it has raised $27 million in a Series C round.
Let our Passbook obsession continue! Since the debut of Apple’s pseudo-mobile wallet in iOS 6 earlier this month, the extended developer community has rushed to deliver value-add solutions built on top of the platform.
Mobile payments company Bango — partner to Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry and others to enable app and content charges directly to your mobile phone bill — has announced another major carrier partner: Telefonica is enabling Bango payments via its payment API.
The global deal (RNS statement embedded below) will mean that developers who make apps for Telefonica’s 314 million subscrib
Sage North America has opened a new partner program for Sage One, the company’s cloud-based ERP and CRM business services for SMBs, to compensate partners (and users) for referrals of the SaaS solution that result in subscriptions.
This past May, Sage signaled an intention to go after the SMB market with the Sage One service aimed at small businesses of up to nine employees.
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