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Mobio - The phone is meant for LIVING and not just for talking and SMSing!
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Well don’t be surprised if you’ve not heard of these guys. After creating waves in the US, they are finally looking at India ops.
…and by the looks of it, their GetMobio service seems to be pretty cool!
What is Mobio? Who are these guys?
Mobile Widgets! These chaps mash up web services into mobile apps and serve it to you.
They say their mission is to provide Fun and Functional widgets that can be personalized based on your preferences, published and shared with others, and run on all kinds of popular mobile phones.
The company was founded in Menlo Park, California in 2005 by a couple of Indian IIT brains Ramneek Bhasin and Sanjeev Sardana along with Marcia Kadanoff.
Mobio has raised $9M from investors including InterWest Partners and Storm Ventures.
June Widgets @ Mobio include ones for Twitter and Digg:
They’ve been able to capture the imagination of a lot of people, with IDC naming them as one of the top 10 wireless entertainment companies to watch in 2007. Business 2.0 and Laptop magazine have lauded them too.
Well it’s basically a US based mobile lifestyle portal?
What’s in it for us in India?
Well their site says: Mobio is in the process of establishing a local presence in India in several cities.
Well, Mobio has created a localised India-specific portal that can be downloaded by all phones that are Internet-enabled. They are to announce a host of India-specific content in the coming weeks and are now in talks with leading mobile operators here.
Via - Hindu
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