Mobile Barcodes: woabi buys mobile barcode business barcoo
Hot news in the German press. Checkitmobile, the owners of mobile barcode services woabi just received its second round in financing and has bought barcode scanner business barcoo.
The following is in German but an interview and update coming shortly.
Tarik Tokic sagt: „Mit barcoo und woabi hat checkitmobile eine der größten und am schnellsten wachsenden mobilen Nutzergemeinden in Deutschland. Allein im Oktober 2009 haben über 50.000 Leute eine der beiden Anwendungen heruntergeladen. Das ist insbesondere für die Anbieter von Produktdaten, Kooperationspartner und Werbetreibende von großer Bedeutung, die bisher wegen mangelnder Reichweite noch zögerlich im mobilen Internet unterwegs waren.“ Die gemeinsamen Ressourcen wollen barcoo und woabi unter anderem nutzen, um die lokalen Dienste weiter auszubauen und zum Beispiel mehr Geschäfte im Umkreis anzuzeigen.
Weitere Informationen unter www.checkitmobile.com und www.barcoo.de .
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Consolidation is underway.
I love seeing all the 800 pound gorillas like IBM, Microsoft & Google trying to enter this space and grab a slice of the pie.
The only problem is that NeoMedia owns the patents that cover this technology.
NeoMedia just partnered with NeuStar who will act as NeoMedia’s licensing agent in the US for the next 4 years.
Also, NeoMedia’s long time rival and competitor Scanbuy just signed a 10 year royalty based licensing agreement with NeoMedia, which further strengthens the IP.
How long until Google, IBM or Microsoft buys NeoMedia and their valuable patent portfolio and dominates the mobile barcode market?
The OMA & GSMA are defining the standards. CTIA is about to award the code registry & clearinghouse to NeuStar. The ecosystem is nearly complete & about to come online.
Get ready!