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China: The New Assertiveness China is the world’s new place to dream big and strike it rich for today’s generation.  Inspired and motivated by the hero status of Robin Li of Baidu and Jack Ma of Alibaba, bright and ambitious talents under the age of 40 are creating a second, deeper and broader wave of China entrepreneurship. Record venture capital sums, first-mover advantage, market leaders, race-to-the-finish line timing, micro-tweaked innovations, ultra-competitive tactics – it’s all part of the new generation’s playbook to get ahead of the pack. Assertive and confident where their predecessors were humble and unsure, these mavericks are …

An exciting experience awaits us all at CommunicAsia 2011, themed ‘Shaping Vision, Creating Reality’, at the uber-swanky new Marina Bay Sands venue in downtown Singapore! While there is an ambitious agenda of people for us to spend time with during the week, we certainly expect some of the most important folks will be attending our Mobile Monday Mixer on the evening of Monday June 20th, proudly sponsored by Nokia and SingTel. With many local and Intl. visiting delegates, including MoMo members from across the region, on-hand for “The” kick-off event of the cofab it’s sure be a total scene at …

On Monday May 16th, I joined the M2M event in downtown London organized by MoMo London. It was a great experience seeing the crowd of developers, start-ups, M2M engineers and mobile business people. The hall was packed with no empty seats. The panel of Camille Mendler Informa (@cmendler) moderator, Dan Warren GSMA (@tmgb), David Wood Accenture (@dw2), William Webb from Neul and myself gave short presentations first before entering the hot seats. A few take-aways from the panel and presentations: We have talked about M2M before; now it’s going to happen. Smartphone technology and its miniaturization will enable advances. Many …

Looking for a little brotherly love, RCR Wireless News is hitting the streets of Philadelphia the week of June 6, as part of our global tour. The RCR Wireless News Mobile Broadband Philadelphia tour will include several days meeting with local telecommunication leaders and associations as well as a conference. Our visit to Philadelphia will also include a half-day in person and online conference on June 8 at the Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel, where attendees will be able to get a better understanding of how carriers and suppliers are addressing the market’s insatiable demand for mobile data. The conference …

Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director at m-ecosystem, did a super review of the Start-up Showcase, organized by MoMo Boston and held at the MIT Museum, in his “Lens on Wireless” newsletter: This past Monday, I attended a Mobile Start-Up showcase at the MIT Museum, which featured some thirty exhibitors. I thought I would use this Lens to offer a few big picture observations about what an event like this tells us about the state of the market. Hats off to the Mobile Monday Boston and MIT Mobile Club teams who put together a great event. An initial macro observation is that …

For the past five months, UN Global Pulse has had a team of two Innovation Officers on the ground in Uganda.  The team has been working closely with the Global Pulse staff in New York to lay the groundwork for establishing a Pulse Lab, located in Kampala.  This work comes from a request by the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the UN General Assembly that Uganda to be the host country for the first of these groundbreaking labs. Pulse Lab Kampala will be a physical space where software developers, designers and analysts can work together to address pressing problems around …

MobileMonday is a proud supporting partner for this important event and will host a very special MoMo gathering on the evening of May 30th – Full Details Here – to welcome some 250 visiting delegates. We continue to expand our activities in Africa and the Middle East, noting most recent new chapter debuts in Ghana, Nigeria, Palestine and Tanzania with upcoming launches in Senegal and Egypt. These teams join established groups well underway in Algiers, Islamabad, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. infoDev’s 4th Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on May 30 to …

Update June 6th: See the Full Post Event Report Here Congrats! We would like to invite you to the launch of MobileMonday Manila. It will be held on May 9, 2011, from 7pm to 9pm, at the offices of BBDO Guerrero/Proximity Philippines at 11/F Insular Life Building, Ayala Avenue corner Paseo de Roxas, Makati City. The topic of the night for our premiere meeting will be “The Future of Mobile Innovation in the Philippines,” and we have invited speakers who will be giving their respective points of view based on their individual specialties: Manolo Almagro (Independent consultant from the US, …

The MoMo crew in Germany looks forward to meet energetic mobilistas at the upcoming mLove event, runs June 29 – July 2 near Berlin, and they even scored this 10% discount code [MLOVE-VIP11-MOMO] for our members who are interested and able to attend this impressive annual gathering. This meet-up of the so-called “IT avantgarde” has an engaging and inspiring format, held at an 18th century castle in the former Eastern Germany, to expose keen mobile players to the best minds outside of the industry to maximize opportunity of creating life-changing services and applications that can impact us all for the …

The annual Innovation Africa Digital Summit, held in Kenya March 22 – 24th, gathered c-level industry leaders for 3-full days of panel discussions, networking and business opportunities, see agenda here. We were honored to participate again this year along with other supporting organizations, industry leaders, policy regulators and government representative agencies who presented case studies, conducted workshops and provided related materials supporting senior executive delegates with insight and valuable connections for building ICT in Africa. Organized by Extensia, this platform continues to serve as a perfect opportunity for MobileMonday to learn – first hand – about the important developments across …