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Critical Path Acquires ShoZu
Deal brings together two leaders in online communication, organisation and sharing for consumers and businesses
Dublin, IRELAND – January 5, 2010 – Privately-held Critical Path, Inc., a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that it has purchased the business and assets of ShoZu Limited. The acquisition of ShoZu’s mobile social media services [...]
GoMo 1-to-1: mobile social media hub Shozu looks at m-commerce
I had a great interview with Chris Wade, CEO of Shozu, at the Under The Radar conference last week. So far in its life, Shozu has focused on being a hub for mobile photo sharing that connects outwards to the most popular social networks. Now Shozu is looking at expanding this platform into financial transactions Continue reading
Building a business in mobile
Some truly useful information came to light this afternoon at Mobile 2.0, as a panel of mobile experts addressing an audience that was 50% mobile startups. The topic of the panel was “building a business in mobile”, and the panelists have been deeply involved with mobile startups of all stripes for many years now. The following is a selection of the advice they gave. Now, I also recorded this panel – so I should be able to post the entire thing either tomorrow or early next week. But I felt that it had such good content that I should get at least some of it posted as soon as possible! Continue reading
Mobile social hub ShoZu looks to app stores to drive revenue
Social media hub ShoZu has announced that it’s major business drive this year is going to be towards application stores. You can download the app from ShoZu for free right now… if you’ve got an S60 phone. It also caters to a limited number of Windows phones and Blackberrys – but the only app store ShoZu is available on is the iPhone app store, for 5 dollars. Continue reading
@Mobile 2.0 chat with Frank Kelcz from ShoZu

I was sat down interviewing Truphone, when I bumped into Max Roam and when I turned around there next to me was Frank Kelcz from ShoZu. Continue reading
Mobile social networking, LBS friend finder or mobile 2.0 what?
There is a lot of confusion surrounding mobile social networking, the introduction of LBS into social communities and friend watching services such as Twitter. Are they all from the same fruit?
Social networking
Social networking is when users promote themselves communicate with friends via a community such as bebo, Facebook or MySpace. The mobile versions of these [...]
ShoZu Signs First Operator Deal
by David Murphy Mobile Marketing Magazine
ShoZu has reached an agreement to provide its mobile media services to customers of Austrian mobile network provider Hutchison 3G Austria, initially as a free download to the handset from the carrier’s mobile portal and tentatively as a pre-installed application on select phones. The agreement marks ShoZu’s first partnership with [...]
