Tag Archives: getfugu

More mobile direct mail marketing with shady mobile searcher Getfugu

Published on Monday, March 1st by Cian O' Sullivan

This is second time within a month I’ve seen a story about combining the power of mobile with direct mail marketing. This practice allows a marketing letter to connect immediately to the advertiser through mobile data. The earlier story dealt with printing mobile barcodes on letters – but this one is a little more interesting. Mainly because scandal-magnet Getfugu is involved. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Content, Mobile Search, Mobile applications, mobile news | Tagged advertising, application, AR, augmented reality, controversy, getfugu, marketing, mobile, mobile app, Mobile Search | 4 Comments

What controversy? Augmented Reality mobile search from GetFugu rocks out 2009

Published on Tuesday, December 29th by Cian O' Sullivan

The proposition behind GetFugu is a simple one – you should be able to point your mobile phone camera at something and buy it. And you should be able to say the name of something into your phone and buy it. The “See it, Say it, Buy it” promise at the heart of this augmented reality search app has had a rocky 2009, with legal controversy raising its head in early October. But GetFugu seems to have weathered the storm, and has just announced $800,000 in funding. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Search, Mobile applications, mobile news | Tagged AR, augmented reality, funding, getfugu, Investment, mobile app, mobile application, mobile AR, mobile augmented reality, mobile internet, Mobile Search, Mobile Web, search | 5 Comments

GetFugu gets $4 million for Mobile brand search

Published on Tuesday, September 8th by Cian O' Sullivan

GetFugu is the long awaited search engine that uses Augmented Reality services to point consumers towards their favourite brands. Less than a week after booking Spongetech as its first brand partner, GetFugu has announced that the company is investing $4 million in the search engine. Continue reading →

Posted in Branded Mobile Search, Mobile Search, mobile location, mobile news | Tagged brand, getfugu, mobile, mobile brand, mobile internet, Mobile Search, Mobile Web, search, spongetech | 3 Comments

Mobile search GetFugu to give free debit cards to first 100,000 users

Published on Friday, August 14th by Cian O' Sullivan

The long-awaited mobile search service from GetFugu is set to launch this September. September 9th, actually, for the 09.09.09 launch date. In order to attract a chunk of users on day one, the company has announced it will be giving special GetFugu debit cards to the first 100,000 subscribers. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Search, mobile news, mobile payments | Tagged brand, getfugu, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, mobile retail, Mobile Search, search | 1 Comment

Getfugu Mobile Search, visual search and voice search

Published on Wednesday, June 17th by Bena Roberts

Now, we have written about Getfugu before on GoMo News and Cian wasn’t too impressed. But today I just spend 30 minutes or so checking out the company and the service and various content.
Why?
Well Getfugu launched a new press release today saying that it has partnered with Interpublic’s (IPG) Emerging Media Lab, a leading center [...]

Posted in Branded Mobile Search, Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Content, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Search, Mobile Web, Mobile applications, White Label Search_ | Tagged amazon, display advertising, getfugu, gps, image search, jumptap, mcn, Medio, mobile acuity, mobile advertising, Mobile Search, movidilo, snaptell, visual search | Leave a comment

New mobile search engine from Getfugu combines LBS, voice, video and image recognition

Published on Tuesday, April 14th by Cian O' Sullivan

Getfugu is a mobile company with mild multiple-personality disorder. It provides a number of very different services, with mobile search being the most recent area it has branched into. The search engine it offers combines a number of mobile search types that have been popular of late: local search, logo based visual search, voice search [...]