February 14th, 2013

How Bubble Motion Is Winning Feature Phones As “Twitter For Voice” Hits 25 Million Users

Image1 for post Bubble Motion Scores $6 Million In Funding For Voice Messaging Solutions

It’s been a long journey for Bubble Motion, one of Singapore’s oldest startups. The company has been around since 2005 and made its name as a voice messenger app, allowing people to send voice clips to each other within text messages. Unlike with an MMS, the service requires no data. A user dials *7*, follows the phone commands and speaks. The recipient gets a text and “retrieves” the… → Read More

September 5th, 2012

Tired Of Being Twitter For Voice, Bubbly 2.0 for iPhone Becomes “The Instagram Of Voice”

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Singapore-based Bubble Motion, the company behind sound-based social network Bubbly, unveiled a new version of its app today. The version 2.0 of Bubbly introduces filters users can apply to their voice, much like those Instagram offers for photos. Bubbly has a lot of traction already, including 19 million members mostly from Asian countries like Japan and India where it’s found favor with a lot of… → Read More

August 23rd, 2012

Voice Blogging Service Bubble Motion Raises $5M From JAFCO Asia

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Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, has raised $5 million in new funding from venture firm, JAFCO Asia. Previous backers include SingTel Innov8, Infocomm Investments, Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC.

Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a voice-blogging phone service that allows people to share status updates in… → Read More

April 11th, 2012

Bubble Motion Brings Voice Blogging App To Android

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Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is debuting its Android app today, as well as launching an iOS app globally.

Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a voice-blogging phone service that allows people to share status updates in their own voice with fans and followers. It essentially takes Twitter’s model and applies this to… → Read More

November 16th, 2011

Gearing Up For Asia Expansion, Bubble Motion Makes A Number of Executive Hires

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Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is announcing a number of high-profile executive hires to support its future growth in Asia.

Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a voice-blogging phone service that allows people to share status updates in their own voice with fans and followers. It essentially takes Twitter’s model and… → Read More

March 30th, 2011

Bubble Motion Raises $10M For Social Voice Blogging Service

Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, has raised $10 million in new funding led by SingTel Innov8 with participation from Singapore’s Infocomm Investments in addition to insiders Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC. This brings Bubble Motion’s total funding to $45 million.

Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a… → Read More

January 20th, 2011

Bubble Motion Expands Beyond Voice-Blogging With Twitter And Facebook Integration

Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is expanding to include social media services today with Twitter and Facebook integration and SMS alerts.

Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a voice-blogging phone service that allows people to share status updates in their own voice with fans and followers. It essentially… → Read More

November 30th, 2010

Bubble Motion Brings Voice Blogging To Indonesia

Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion, which offers a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India and Japan, is bringing its service to Indonesia today via a deal with Indonesian mobile communications company XL Axiata. The service, which has seen considerable traction in India, will be dubbed ‘XL CUAPS.’

Bubble Motion’s BubbleBlog platform delivers a voice-blogging phone service so that people… → Read More

September 21st, 2010

Japan Gets Voice Blogging Courtesy Of Bubble Motion

Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion, which offers a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, is bringing its service to Japan today via a deal with Japanese mobile communications company KDDI. The service, which has seen considerable traction in India, will be dubbed “Koe-Now.”

Bubble Motion’s BubbleBlog platform delivers a voice-blogging phone service so that people can share status updates… → Read More

July 19th, 2010

Bubble Motion's Voice Blogging Service Reaches 1.2 Million Paid Subscribers In India

Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion recently launched a Twitter-like voice blogging service and has seen considerable traction in India, where politicians, brands and actor are using Bubbly to connect with fans. Rolled out just months ago, Bubble Motion’s voice-blogging phone service, called Bubbly, has accumulated more than 2 million overall users and currently has over 1.2 million paid subscribers… → Read More

May 19th, 2010

Bubble Motion Adds Sharing And Commenting To Mobile Voice Blogging Service

We recently wrote about Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion’s foray into voice blogging, Bubbly. While the thought of a Twitter-like voice blogging service is a little strange, the service is picking up steam in India, where politicians, brands and actor are using Bubbly to connect with fans. Today, Bubble Motion is releasing a new, more interactive version of Bubbly, the … → Read More

March 25th, 2010

Voice Messaging Startup Bubble Motion Nabs Former Yelp And Elance Exec As Marketing Chief

Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion has added a seasoned marketing exec Brad Porteus to its team. Porteus will take on the role of chief marketing officer for the voice blogging startup.

Most recently, Porteus was CMO for Elance, a service that allows for companies and individuals to hire and pay independent professionals and contractors online. Previously, he was VP of… → Read More

February 9th, 2010

Bubble Motion Launches Twitter-Like Voice Blogging Service For Mobile Phones

Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space. The startup is launching Bubbly, a voice-blogging social network built for mobile phones.

With Bubbly, you can record and broadcast messages from any mobile device. When a users records audio messages and updates, followers can listen in whenever they… → Read More

July 23rd, 2009

Bubble Motion Scores $6 Million In Funding For Voice Messaging Solutions

Voice messaging company Bubble Motion has secured $6 million in financing from Palomar Ventures, for which this is the first investment in the startup, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital.

Venturebeat had earlier confirmed the fundraising based on a regulatory filing but at the time it was unclear who the investors were. Al Snyder, former COO of Openwave and… → Read More