Strong sponsorship means strong GoMo for MWC!

GoMo News is expanding and growing, and this year we have an unprecendented four reporters and one networker covering MWC! Unfortunately, this doesn’t come for free. It all costs money, and we are hugely grateful to all of our sponsors over the last few years. This year is no different - our sponsors have been wonderful supporters, and their constant efforts help to bring you the news from the mobile industry, together with our comment and opinions.

Gordan Gajski to Lead WIN plc’s Business Development in Central Europe

15 September 2009, London: WINplc, the leading provider of interactive mobile information and entertainment services, today announced that Gordan Gajski, former Director of Licensing at Amdocs Interactive, will be joining WIN plc from 1st October to manage business development in central Europe.
Gajski has more than 18 years of experience in the music industry, telecommunications, marketing [...]

WIN plc Applauds VAT-free Charity Texts

But plenty of work still to do as networks and third parties retain a 20% cut
High Wycombe, UK – July 27th, 2009 – WIN plc welcomes and applauds the move today by the MDA, mobile operators and HMRC that will result in charities getting an extra 15 per cent on donations made by text [...]

WIN Plc Partners with Digital Chocolate to deliver Mobile Games to Puzzle Magazine Readers

London, High Wycombe, UK – July 22, 2009 – WIN plc, a leading provider of interactive mobile entertainment and information services, today announced a partnership with Digital Chocolate, the world’s largest mobile game and application provider with locations in Santa Mateo, Helsinki, Barcelona, and Bangalore, to deliver high quality mobile games in the UK using [...]

Mobile Advertsing: Velti revenue up on Telefonica deal

An interesting article in Reuters today about Velti made me take a closer look at the company and create a quick SWOT analysis (see below).

WIN ENTERS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH TECH MAHINDRA

Developing new WIN next generation platform and
joint go-to-market strategies in key expansion territories
June 29, 2009, London: WINplc, the leading provider of interactive mobile information and entertainment services, today confirmed it had agreed a strategic alliance with global systems integration and business transformation specialist, Tech Mahindra.
Under the terms of the initial agreement, Tech Mahindra will [...]

Interview with Graham Rivers CEO WIN Plc

I started off my conversation with the CEO of WIN Graham Rivers with a reflection on the past year. I said, WIN seemed to have been extremely quiet and the last I had heard was from a financial update, which was positive. But prior to that very little news came from WIN.
Graham mentioned that the [...]

Yell launches new 118 24 7 text service

- Yell chooses WIN plc to provide the software platform
 
- 118 24 7’s first ever stand-alone TV ad campaign launched to support the service

 
·         Yell, the international directories business, has launched “118 24 7 TextBack” – a new SMS service which allows consumers to quickly text simple directory enquiry requests for classified business information. They [...]

WIN plc - from sponsoring GoMo News to potential sale!

OK, OK. I might be exaggerating slightly.  But WIN plc our headline sponsor.  The blazing gun company that beat all records ever to sign up for six months as a sponsor for GoMo News - has published a financial press release.
But it does sound good - from sponsoring GoMo News to potential sale!  (Bena grins to [...]

WIN and AOL UK partner

WIN PLC and AOL UK have announced that WIN will power AOL’s UK web and mobile offerings. WIN will provided a content delivery platform, content aggregation, web and mobile portal design along with an ongoing service development agreement and will deliver entertainment, information and paid for content.
They Say: Graham Rivers, WIN plc CEO said: “This [...]

AOL UK partners with WIN

AOL UK has partnered with WIN plc.
Why?

Basically, WIN will provide AOL with a mobile content delivery platform for web and mobile.
 
How?
WIN will provide AOL UK with a fully managed mobile content store for both mobile and online. This store will provide and supply entertainment, information and paid for content to AOL consumers.
From the press release
Announcing [...]

WIN Launches WAP Intranet and Extranet Service

WIN Plc announces the UK launch of an intranet and extranet service – which is based around a fully managed WAP Portal.
What?
Is this like a managed service WAP platform offering updates on celebrity, company news, feed and SMS/ MMS and Video.
Yes. It seem as though it is. Interactivity is vital for Mobile 2.0 and Win [...]

WIN delivers managed intranet service to enhance Vodafone Retail’s customer experience

High Wycombe, UK – May 7th, 2008 – WIN Plc, innovators in interactive mobile entertainment and information today announced it would provide a managed mobile intranet service for Vodafone Retail. The news and information service will allow two-way communication between Vodafone headquarters and in-store retail teams in 346 stores direct to the mobile handsets of [...]

Chat with Graham Rivers CEO of mobile technology enabler WIN

I have known the company WIN for a while now. The company first came to my attention when I was working on the Rate Your Night business. That business was a mash-up between an imaging solution and YoSpace’s See Me TV.
At the time, I was doing a lot of competitive intelligence for the business plan [...]

MyStrands Start-Up Mobile Recommendation technology competition

Anyone in a start-up or with a new recommendation technology should sign up for the MyStrands mobile start-up competition.
You can win up to 100K – see here: http://blog.mystrands.com/2008/03/12/recommender

What we think?
Now, I like MyStrands and the company also sponsored our GoMo News blender at MWC; but the idea of this competition is confusing. I am not [...]

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