Lunch with Steve Ives and Bob Last Taptu

I met Taptu founder Steve Ives and SVP Bob Last for lunch at Browns in SoHo. I wanted to squeeze Taptu because even though I liked the last release of the search service – I didn’t understand the concept of Taptu and what the future was for the company.

So I met Steve and Bob with [...]

MEM08 – Patrick Parodi “this is the year of Mobile Entertainment”

Patrick Parodi heads up the MEM08 today which is in a beachside hotel in Cannes. The location is nice but the signposts for finding the conference were slightly shot –but I made it! In fact I had an entourage of about six followers.

So some news Patrick Parodi is now on the Chair of the MEF [...]

Chat with Bob Last Taptu Mobile Search– SVP Business Development

I first met Bob Last at the Mobile World Congress when it was called 3GSM and I have given him a terrible time over Taptu.
Why?

Because they were early to market, very ambitious and I wanted to be more impressed than I was.  Over a year on, things have changed. Taptu has matured and by gum [...]

Breakfast with Taptu’s Bob Last and digestive thoughts on Google, Vodafone, mobile search and more

Rating: can fish sing?
by Bena Roberts
The first time I met Taptu and Bob Last was at 3GSM where despite hosting a booth with a bar – he was very secretive. But today he was like Mary Poppins with a spoonful of mobile search sugar and I finally tested the Alpha version. BETA will be out [...]

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