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    Mobile 2.0 startups selected for MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards

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    Monday, January 19th, 2009
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    The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona will be happening at this year’s Mobile World Congress and the event is one of the best things on the circuit. Why? Because where else do you get to find out what is really pushing the buttons of the Mobile 2.0 world?

    The stats are this: 163 startups participated and 42 nominees were selected by each chapter in the Mobile Mondays global network. An international Jury will now select the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona. The finalists will be announced on January 26.

    So, the startups nominated are:

    7syntax – MobileMonday Portugal
    Addict Digital Media – Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
    aka-aki networks GmbH – MobileMonday Berlin
    Anaeko – MobileMonday Belfast
    Aradiom – MobileMonday Istanbul
    Babajob.com – MobileMonday Bangalore
    Beabloo – MobileMonday Barcelona
    Big in Japan Inc. – MobileMonday Dallas
    bioLocate – MobileMonday Jakarta
    CIDWAY – MobileMonday Geneva
    Cirius Technologies, Inc. – MobileMonday Los Angeles
    Crave Mobile – MobileMonday Philadelphia
    Creador Estudio Interactivo C.A. – MobileMonday Caracas
    Dial2Do – MobileMonday Dublin
    Dialy – Mobile Monday Maroc
    DPGroup >> Product: SINDYK – MobileMonday Bogota
    Fortumo – MobileMonday Estonia
    fring – MobileMonday Tel Aviv
    Getjar Networks – MobileMonday Lithuania
    iKen Solutions – MobileMonday Mumbai
    Keynetik – MobileMonday Washington DC
    Liquid Air Lab GmbH / adplace.com – MobileMonday Frankfurt
    Mob4Hire – MobileMonday Vancouver
    Mobintech A/S – MobileMonday Copenhagen
    mobiSiteGalore – MobileMonday Chennai
    MocoSpace – Mobile Monday Boston
    Nimbuzz B.V. – Mobile Monday Amsterdam
    Orbster GmbH – MobileMonday Munich
    Oxynade – MobileMonday Brussels
    Palringo – MobileMonday London
    rmbrME – MobileMonday New York
    Secusmart GmbH – MobileMonday Dusseldorf
    Smaato Inc. – MobileMonday Hamburg
    Soonr – MobileMonday Silicon Valley
    Tellmewhere – MobileMonday Paris
    Unkasoft Advergaming – MobileMonday Madrid
    Wapalta – MobileMonday St. Petersburg
    Wapja.net – MobileMonday Sao Paulo
    WorldMate, Inc. – MobileMonday Atlanta
    Xumii – MobileMonday Sydney

    The jury selecting the 20 finalists consists of:

    * Andrea Trasatti – Director of Device Intiatives mTLD
    * Steve Kennedy – Mobile Industry Review
    * Guillaume Lautour – Partner agfpe.com
    * Chetan Sharma – President of Chetan Sharma Consulting
    * Larry Berkin – Vice President, ecosystem & corporate business development for ACCESS
    * Gary Cohen – Principal – Mobility Practice / Milestone Group
    * Kim Lennox – experience design lead at Adaptive Path
    * Jennifer Grenz – Vice President Products and Marketing at ShoZu
    * Felix Petersen – co-founder of plazes.com
    * Bastian Lehmann – VP Product Development at AditOn
    * Jouko Ahvenainen – Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of Xtract Ltd.
    * Roberto Bonanzinga – Partner Balderton Capital
    * Pat Phelan – C.E.0 MAXroam
    * Ajit Joakar – Open Gardens
    * Alfredo Morresi – Code Sniper Funambol, Inc
    * Raimo van der Klein – SPRXmobile
    * Volker Hirsch – EVP Corporate Development for Connect 2 Media
    * Jonathan Greene – Athmasphere
    * Albert Cuesta – IT and mobility analyst

    • http://blog.dial2do.com/2009/01/20/dial2do-is-a-nominee-for-mobilemonday-peer-awards/ Dial2Do is a nominee for MobileMonday Peer Awards « Voice. An Opinion.

      [...] TechCrunch UK article here. [...]

    • http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/01/20/smaato-nominated-for-mobilemonday-peer-awards/ Smaato Blog » Blog Archive » Smaato nominated for MobileMonday Peer Awards

      [...] Mobile 2.0 startups selected for MobileMonday Peer Awards [...]

    • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/20-mobile-startups-make-it-to-the-barcelona-beach-side-awards/ 20 mobile startups make it to the Barcelona beach-side awards

      [...] network. They have picked their finalists for the awards from a list which started at 162, went to 42 and is now down to the final 20. It’s necessarily from a wide cross-section of countries [...]

    • Carmen elena

      Gracias xla pag.

    • http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/16/mobile-startups-whittled-down-to-the-last-five-in-barcelona/ Mobile Startups Whittled Down To The Last Five in Barcelona

      [...] rest of the 42 and the final 20 are listed here and here. [...]

    • http://www.instantdownloadz.com/?p=46 Instant Downloadz » Mobile Startups Whittled Down To The Last Five in Barcelona

      [...] rest of the 42 and the final 20 are listed here and [...]

    • http://spinvalleypost.com/2009/02/16/mobile-startups-whittled-down-to-the-last-five-in-barcelona/ Mobile Startups Whittled Down To The Last Five in Barcelona | Spin Valley Post

      [...] rest of the 42 and the final 20 are listed here and [...]

    • http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/20090216mobile-startups-whittled-down-to-the-last-five-in-barcelona/ バルセロナで開催されたMobile Peer Award、受賞5社が決定

      [...] 受賞から漏れた42社およびファイナルに残った20社はこちらおよびこちらに掲載している。 [...]

    • http://technews.comoj.com/2009/02/16/mobile-startups-whittled-down-to-the-last-five-in-barcelona/ Mobile Startups Whittled Down To The Last Five in Barcelona | Technology news

      [...] rest of the 42 and the final 20 are listed here and [...]

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