SubscribeMobile Monday Beijing Peer Awards
On last Monday, I attended this year’s Mobile Monday Beijing Peer Awards, and witnessed 9 mobile companies competed the awards. All candidates did a great job, with some of them offering innovative mobile services. I’d like to introduce to our readers the top three companies in startup category, i.e. with less than $1 million in funding.
The Second Runner-up: PangHuLu
PangHuLu is a mobile software which enable users to build a personalized mobile experience, by subscribing any digital content they like, searching for lifestyle information to their interests, and in near future adding mobile widgets as they wish. PangHuLu believes in the demand of personalization on mobile phone. We profiled PangHuLu on November 2006.
The Runner-up: Daav.cn
SMS spamming is a very annoying problem faced by Chinese mobile users who usually will received several spam sms every day. Daav.cn tries to solve this problem. It thinks existing sms anti-spam solutions are all have their obvious limits by adopting blacklist or keyword matching methods, it offers a personalized sms anti-spam software, which will filter the unsolicited sms by learning a mobile user’s preference automatically based on his very particular interests.
Personalized anti spam is just the first step, Daav.cn would like to build more personalized mobile apps based on the developed technology.
The Winner: Tokiva
Tokiva is a mobile virtual network operator which provide convenient and low-cost communication service to global traveler. Tokiva addresses key communications necessities for global travelers: inexpensively phone calls around the world, accessing email and sharing with peers.
After installing its mobile client and log in, you can call any number. Tokiva calls the user back and immediately connects the user to the called party. It also integrated with IM, so you can add its IM bot to use the service without downloading its client.
The service was privately launched in September 2007, and entered public beta with over 700k registered users on January 2008.
(photos courtesy of Benjamin Joffe)
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[Source: China Web2.0 Review] quoted: Tokiva is a mobile virtual network operator which provide convenient and low-cost communication service to global traveler. Tokiva addresses key communications necessities for global travelers: inexpensively phone …
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