Interview with Sarik Weber Co Founder Cellity on being sold to Nokia

I am delighted that Hamburg based mobile messaging and application company Cellity has been purchased by Nokia. GoMo News has had a great relationship with the company for over a year. I decided to pick up the phone and give founder and VP Marketing Sarik Weber a call.

Nokia to acquire cellity

Espoo, Finland - Hamburg, Germany - Nokia and cellity today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire certain assets of cellity. cellity is a privately owned mobile software company which employs 14 people in Hamburg, Germany.
Nokia will acquire the cellity team to strengthen its competencies in the area of social networking. cellity’s current service [...]

Skyfire seals another mobile deal, with cellity

Mobile browser Skyfire has announced a “cooperation” with mobile communications hub cellity. The deal means that users of each service will have easy access to the other - a link to cellity will appear in Skyfires bookmarks, and cellity will include a direct download link for the mobile browser. Coming so soon after Skyfires similar [...]

Cellity address book 2.0 comes to blau.de

Cellity and blau Mobilfunk GmbH are cooperating to give both companies better offers for their customers. Address book 2.0 stores and updates contact data from different sources (like Outlook, Twitter, and social networks) in one secure place. This deal allows blau.de customers to access cellity features with low blau.de tariffs in place.
From the release:
Sarik Weber, [...]

cellity Communicator brings social networks to your mobile phone contact book

Rating: Communicator application, with new Addressbook2.0, enters open beta today

The cellity Communicator goes into open beta mode today. The application, which can be used on any phone that supports Java (not just smartphones), acts as a contact aggregator and communications tool.
The latest addition to Communicator, Addressbook2.0, can access and store contact information from pretty much [...]

Pink Champagne with Sarik Weber Cellity

So you will not believe my surprise…  I thought Cellity was a tiny start-up based in Hamburg working out of a living room.
Yikes.

Cellity has a lovely office in the heart of Hamburg a tiny very dark garage that I had huge trouble parking my Chelsea tractor in – but managed with help from Sarik.
Anyway – after a [...]

SCOOP: Cellity Mobile about to launch

http://www.cellity.com/de/download.html 
Just got a scoop in by a secret German source. You can download it or check it out by clicking on the link. More on Cellity soon.

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