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London

MoMo London Demo Night Event Round Up

In partnership with ICT KTN, Demo Night made its return on the 2nd April … to yet another packed house. We’re very grateful to all the demoers who presented their interesting ideas, and we’re only sorry that we had to turn down so many others. Thanks also to the many attendees who gave feedback on the event, by all accounts it was enjoyable! And now on to our Valentina Ciolino (@MissFog) who tells us more about the serious side of the event. Did you miss April’s MobileMonday London demo night? Too bad – more than a show and tell, more than …

Beijing

MoMo Beijing – April 23rd – Mobile Media Publishing

The whole publishing industry has been strongly affected by smart devices and new content distribution channels with them. More and more people are turning to smart devices as their major means of reading and getting information. Books count as a major app category in Apple AppStore; and the iPhone/iPad Newsstand opened a door for “new age” publishers and traditional media to compete directly on the same stage. Yet we are still at the very beginning of a new age of publishing. Smart devices open a whole world of new possibilities to improve people’s reading experience. And we are far away …

Chicago

MoMo Chicago – April 23rd – NFC with Intersog

In our planning meeting last December, NFC was the number #1 requested topic. So by popular demand, here it is! In case you are wondering, here is the WikiPedia definition “Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimeters.” Monday, April 23, 2012, 5:30 PM Morningstar 22 West Washington Street 7th Floor Chicago, IL About the speaker – Igor Fedulov, the CEO of Intersog will be talking about NFC. Igor has …

Boston

MoMo Boston – Apr. 23rd – Mobile Startups Pitch to VCs

On April 23rd 6:30pm, Mobile Monday Boston is going to have a special event called the Mobile Pitch Challenge. We’ll have some of Boston’s newest early stage mobile startups give pitches to a panel of mobile investors.  The presentations will be followed by commentary and audience voting. Our judges are three of Boston venture finest who also have prior experience on the other side of the fence as mobile entrepreneurs: Antonio Rodriguez, General Partner, Matrix Partners Jeff Glass, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures Jennifer Lum, Co-Founder, Apricot Capital Our presenting companies are new early stage startups: Thumbs Up – www.thumbsupapp.com PrescribableApps …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of April 9th – 2012

Breaker Breaker 19 – Seems Spring Has Sprung – All Eyes on Bulgaria. Witness the 1st sign of spring with Mobile Monday hosting Angry Birds under the Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo last week! The 2nd ‘robin’ would be despite best efforts to grep a Trillion+ bytes in the echo chamber, aka FB, Linkedin and Twitter (etc), we could only find one MoMo event – Sofia – planned for April 9th.. clearly it’s time for people put away the woolies and dig-out their BBQ’s.. Enjoy the sizzle.. and Smile.. it’s Monday.. 😎

Global

Mobile Monday Fourth Annual Mobile Africa Research Report

The 4th Mobile Africa report [.PDF] produced by MobileMonday, released at the annual Innovation Africa Digital Summit, addresses the growing strength of mobile innovation practices in Africa. also see: 2011.pdf – 2010.pdf – 2009.pdf Overview: The focus of the Mobile Africa report this time is on the overall innovation ecosystem, which includes a range of stakeholders: industry, entrepreneurs, government, academia, civil society, donors and multilateral organisations. The report also addresses the crucial role of innovator networks and incubators. The material is drawn from interviews with over two dozen digital media experts as well as extensive research from news and market …

Vancouver

MoMo Vancouver – April 16th – Mobile Web Best Practices

Meet John Boxall, co-founder of Mobify. Are you looking to increase your revenue and ROI from customers on mobile devices? Gartner estimates that social and mobile presence will generate 50 per cent of Web sales by 2015. John will share his success from developing mobile web e-commerce best practices for marque customers such as Starbucks, Threadless and Siemens. Mobify produces a positive ROI for its customers in less than 100 days. Speaker: John Boxall John Boxall, Igor Faletski & Peter McLachlan founded Mobify in 2007 with a vision to extend the web to mobile devices. Mobify now powers more than …

Kiev

MoMo Kiev – April 23rd – Mobile Payments and Profits

April 23 at the conference hall “Arena City” will be the fourth meeting of the club’s Mobile Monday.The main question event, “How else can you earn in a saturated market of Ukrainian mobile communications?” Opens with reports on topics such as non-standard additional services for pre-paid subscribers receive timely and accurate information about the client, mobile payments and electronic money. Will open the meeting, Yuri Korzh – Director of Corporate Management and Control of GlobalMani. Yuri tells about the key features and differences between electronic and mobile payments, market trends and opportunities of e-money in the context of mobile payments. …

Islamabad

MoMo Islamabad – April 2nd – Report: 3G in Pakistan

Mobile Monday event was held on 2nd April, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 50 Students and Faculty members from Electrical Engineering and Mathematics department attended the event. Mr. Syed Yasir Imtiaz from CAST department shared his ideas about the importance of 3G technology and its need in Pakistan’s telecom market. He emphasised that after the 3G licensing, there will be more business opportunities in the Telecom sector. Mr. Muhammad Hassan Khan from Computer Science department gave a presentation about Mobile application development and also discussed about the achievements and activities of Comsats Mobile Application Development (CMad) …