Dusseldorf

Dear MoMo friends, In the past 20 years Duesseldorf has been very successful in settling companies of the Mobile Eco-System – from global players like Network Operators and infractructure giants to SMEs and start-ups. Duesseldorf developed into a truly international Mobile Hub and successfully uses this positioning in the constant effort for industrial locations. After the very successful inaugural Mobile Capital Duesseldorf event last year, we from MobileMonday and our partner, the Office of Economic Development from the City of Düsseldorf invite you to Celebrate With Us the 3rd year of this global campaign. Duesseldorf Mobile Matadors will give you …

Native Ads On Mobile: How they make Mobile Advertising Spending skyrocketing! We are in the post-PC era, and more and more people are carrying around mobile devices and are always connected. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result. The advertising industry still wonders how to advertise effectively to these audiences. Many mobile ads are simply banner or search ads bought inadvertently as advertisers aim for digital audiences. Native ads on Mobile as in apps or on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and such will bring real depth and differentiation to the mobile ad market. But what exactly is a native ad …

The city of Düsseldorf (sadly) has no longer a team in the German 1st football league, but nevertheless it has a good chance to climb up to the champions league when it comes to startups in the mobile arena. Our next MobileMonday on the 8th July features startups, incubators and new collaboration concepts such as Coworking, Service Design Thinking, Lean Incubation, Effectuation and a lot more. We will surely get answers to questions such as … “Is Duessedorf a good place to foster the mobile Internet?” “Can traditional companies still learn something from the startups or vice-versa?” and of course …

Smartphones are now everybody’s darling and the number of users are growing continuously. This makes it an interesting market for device manufacturers and software vendors and all those companies are fighting in the battle for market shares. Some of the “old heroes” are standing with their backs on the wall and they are teasing the developers to help them create their app ecosystem. Apps are important for particular platforms but at the same time mobile web is getting becoming mature. Time (again) for MobileMonday to take a look at a hot topic – the burning mobile platform. So far, we …

The BYOD movement is truly shaking up IT.  Now, more than ever, employees are bringing their own devices to work. Not only that, on average, employees carry more than two devices each. The proliferation of devices and the additional traffic are putting big demands on the corporate network, as well as increasing the risk of data security breaches. Employees today expect the relevant information they need for work, to be accessible on their mobile device. This is true whether the device is company-issued or a personal one. The information they need goes far beyond email and PDF files; they want …

Mobile Payment has been all the rage since NFC (Near Field Communication) entered center-stage some 18 months ago at MWC 2011 in Barcelona. But now, since we are learning that people start to shop around, compare prices and and actually buy things with their mobile hand-sets this trend has become a vital necessity – for users and providers alike. But who will make the race and win the Mobile Payment Trophy – probably worth Billions of Dollars and Euros? Will it be banks like Sparkasse with their NFC enabled chip-cards? Or Online Payment-Services like Paypal with their proprietary solutions? Or …

At first we would like to thank our sponsor: For a long time, mobile email was the most dominant service delivering perceivable value to the enterprises: Professionals could take mobile device anywhere and have access to their business email and calender whenever and wherever it is needed. There is no doubt that the value of mobile email is still important today, yet other mobile solutions are emerging for enterprises and smaller businesses that are worth to take a closer look at, such as device management, mobile order management, mobile business intelligence, to name a few. The next MobileMonday in Düsseldorf …

When we started talking about “Cloud-Services” people thought of Corporate IT. But wait, think again: The more we got used to storing all our contacts and dates, pictures and files in the cloud to make all that accessible from where ever we might be the more we all started using cloud-services – from Google to iCloud, from Dropbox to Instagram to name but a few. But cloud-services are more than just a cheap and reliable way to to store away all your personal data. They can give you anything from enterprise-software to personal music, from time-management to social games. But …

As e-commerce has come of age (it’ll be a 20 something this year) it’s little sibling m-commerce is still struggling to reach the critical mass needed for exponential growth. But wait: There’s commerce literally everywhere: You could be out in the streets and check Qype for a restaurant near you. Or you could be sitting on a train organizing your next holiday trip with recommendations of your social network contacts. And you might even enjoy the coziness of your living room shopping around for the best deals on spring fashion from your iPad. Digital commerce happens everywhere, from all your …

PLEASE CONSIDER OUR NEW LOCATION – RIVERLOFT Time: February 6, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm Location: Dusseldorf Street: RIVERLOFT, Konkordiastrasse 20 Social networking has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Not a single day passes without an invitation to enter somebody else’s circles, “friends” or other networks: ‘Social’ has become a currency in the global fight for eye balls and advertising dollars. And now social has gone mobile: From Online giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter to Mobile-only Players like Foursquare and Qype, to name but a few. Where is ‘mobile social’ going? Who has run successful campaigns …